Tag: Lectionary Reflections

  • January 23, 2024
    Fourth Sunday after EpiphanyMark 1:21-28Anyone who has managed a classroom knows that you want to have your “A”-game going on…

  • January 11, 2024
    Baptism of the LordMark 1:4-11When I was a priest in Albany, GA, I was approached by a person who had…

  • December 19, 2023
    Fourth Sunday of AdventLuke 1:46-55Luke 1:26-38The gospel is never more real than when it connects with us at our most…

  • December 11, 2023
    Third Sunday of AdventIsaiah 61:1-4, 8-11Psalm 1261 Thessalonians 5:16-24John 1:6-8, 19-28Reading the texts for the Third Sunday in Advent makes…

  • November 28, 2023
    First Sunday in AdventMark 13: 24-37A few years ago, I posed this question to an Advent study group at my…

  • November 23, 2023
    Twenty-sixth Sunday after PentecostMatthew 25:31-46It is difficult to hear this parable at the end of Matthew’s Gospel without an ominous…

  • November 9, 2023
    Twenty-fourth Sunday After PentecostJoshua 24:1-3a, 14-25Psalm 78:1-7orWisdom of Solomon 6:12-16Psalm 70orAmos 5:18-24Wisdom of Solomon 6:17-201 Thessalonians 4:13-18Matthew 25:1-13Growing up Lutheran…

  • September 26, 2023
    Eighteenth Sunday After PentecostEzekiel 18:1-4, 25-32Philippians 2:1-13Matthew 21:23-32I imagine I’m not alone when I say that I can have a…

  • August 31, 2023
    Fourteenth Sunday after PentecostExodus 3:1-15Psalm 105Romans 12:9-21Matthew 16:21-28Persons who know about these things say that in the “ordinary time” portion…

  • August 23, 2023
    Thirteenth Sunday After PentecostExodus 1:8-2:10Psalm 124Isaiah 51:1-6Psalm 138Romans 12:1-8Matthew 16:13-20A friend of mine is the chaplain at the hospice residence…