Tag: Lectionary Reflections

  • July 22, 2024
    Written by Kent McDougal2 Samuel 11:1-15Ephesians 3:14-21John 6:1-21Signs of the KingdomDays of promise, breaking forth like the new spring, are…

  • July 18, 2024
    The Eighth Sunday After PentecostJeremiah 23:1-6Psalm 23Ephesians 2:11-22Mark 6:30-34, 53-56As I read through the readings for this coming Sunday, two…

  • July 3, 2024
    Seventh Sunday After PentecostProper 9 (B)Mark 6:1-13In my denomination (the Episcopal Church), it has been standard practice to restrict newly…

  • June 27, 2024
    Written by Amy LeeProper 8 (June 30, 2024)Be Made WellMark 5:22-43I love this familiar story of the bleeding woman. It’s…

  • June 17, 2024
    Proper 7 (June 23, 2024)1 Samuel 17Mark 4:35-41“Praying with Your Imagination”“Curiously enough, one cannot read a book: one can only…

  • June 13, 2024
    Fourth Sunday after PentecostMark 4:26-34 Many have noted the significance of the prevalence of agricultural and horticultural metaphors used by…

  • June 5, 2024
    Proper 5 (10) Second Sunday after Pentecost1 Samuel 8:4-11, (12-15), 16-20, (11:14-15)Psalm 1382 Corinthians 4:13-5:1Mark 3:20-35There is one line I…

  • May 22, 2024
    Trinity SundayIsaiah 6:1-8Psalm 29Romans 8:12-17John 3:1-17By now, I would imagine that most of us who preach and teach on a…

  • May 15, 2024
    Pentecost SundayActs 2:1-21 Romans 8:22-27John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15Basically, it’s a street party—lavish, noisy, and with accusations of public drunkenness. What started…

  • May 8, 2024
    Ascension of the LordActs 1:15-17, 21-26John 17:6-19As a member of the sandwich generation, I teeter between attending to an aging…