Mark 1:4-11
Epiphany 1B
[…] that the good news about Jesus Christ would start with someone else. Similarly, on this Baptism of the Lord Sunday, which is also the first Sunday after Epiphany, I’d like to focus on the fact that the good news about Jesus Christ isn’t just about him. First, consider that Jesus came to John in […]
Genesis 45:3-11, 15
Epiphany 7C
[…] March and as late as the last Sunday in April. Falling as it does on April 17 this year, Easter’s late date means an extra-long season after Epiphany and that in turns means getting to some RCL texts we don’t see very often in case Epiphany is much shorter than the 8 Sundays we […]
Isaiah 42:1-9
Epiphany 1A
On this First Sunday after Epiphany, the world-wide church celebrates the baptism of Jesus because that event was the first manifestation of the glory of God in the adult ministry of Jesus. To help us see the magnificence of Christ’s glory, the Lectionary selects Isaiah 42 for its Old Testament reading. It is a […]
Psalm 2
Last Epiphany A
This is Transfiguration Sunday, the glorious conclusion of the season of Epiphany. The story of Christ’s Transfiguration pre-figured in Exodus 24:12-18, told in Matthew 17:1-9, and retold in II Peter 1:16-21 (our other lectionary readings for today) is given a dark twist in our reading from Psalm 2. The other lectionary readings point to […]
1 Corinthians 7:29-31
Epiphany 3B
[…] God in God’s mysterious plan. Incidentally, it is apparently the use of that word that led the inventors of the Lectionary to choose this text as an Epiphany text. In the Gospel reading for this third Sunday after Epiphany, Mark 1:15 says that Jesus used that very word as he began his public ministry […]
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