1 Corinthians 15:35-38, 42-50
Epiphany 7C
[…] a body that’s not scarred and corrupted is like. But as Weeks also notes, perhaps that mystery is part and parcel of life during the season of Epiphany as well as on the doorstep of Lent. God has revealed to God’s beloved people both the suffering, crucified Jesus and the glorious, risen Christ through […]
Isaiah 9:1-4
Epiphany 3A
The Common Lectionary’s choice to cut off this reading at verse 4 feels artificial. It’s like asking someone to break off singing midway through verse 2 of “Joy to the World.” It doesn’t work. You both want to finish the song and anyway you hear the song finish up in your head even if you…
1 Corinthians 3:1-9
Epiphany 6A
[…] be perfectly united in mind and thought.” However, that’s part of the passage that the RCL appoints as its Epistolary Lesson for the Third Sunday after the Epiphany. So preachers who follow the RCL’s Epistolary Lessons’ schedule for preaching may have recently preached on Paul’s call for Christian unity. Preachers who are searching for […]
John 1:43-51
Epiphany 2B
[…] the child-like aspect of faith keeps hope alive because our willingness to embrace and believe the unlikely has given us a glimpse of Joy. We’ve caught an Epiphany glimpse of a larger world in which God is the Creator and Jesus is the true King. And as 2021 dawns in this month of January, […]
Deuteronomy 30:15-20
Epiphany 6A
[…] has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead…. (I Peter 1:3)” We are nearing the end of Epiphany and standing on the brink of Lent. As we lean into that time of remembering all the Lord has done to save us from our appalling […]
Psalm 29
Epiphany 1B
[…] Revised Common Lectionary’s psalm of choice in all three years of the Lectionary cycle for the Baptism of Christ Sunday at the head of the Season of Epiphany. Not sure why: if I had to choose one of the 150 psalms to accompany Christ’s baptism, Psalm 29 would not be in the running.) […]
1 Corinthians 8:1-13
Epiphany 4B
[…] this passage seem largely irrelevant to the lives of most of Jesus’ 21st century western friends. Yet if, as the New Testament scholar Jeehei Park suggests (https://www.workingpreacher.org/commentaries/revised-common-lectionary/fourth-sunday-after- epiphany-2/commentary-on-1-corinthians-81-13-6), preachers view this text as a message of pastoral care, it can, with the help of the Holy Spirit, reap a rich harvest of insight for […]
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