Psalm 50:7-15
Proper 5A
[…] birds if God did not get hungry and was in no need of appeasement from the human side of things? Psalm 50 has a simple answer: Gratitude. Thanksgiving. Sacrifice did not curry divine favor but expressed gratitude for the divine favor that had already been shown and would be shown again and again. So […]
1 Corinthians 1:1-9
Epiphany 2A
[…] 4 Paul tells Corinth’s Christians that he “always thanks God for” them “because of his grace (chariti) given to you (dotheise) in Christ Jesus.” So even Paul’s thanksgiving for the Corinthian Christians is a response to the effects of God’s work in and on them. Because of its salvific overtones, it’s somewhat regrettable that […]
Isaiah 63:7-9
Christmas 1A
[…] not mean what the wall hanging hints it means. It needs context. These three verses from Isaiah 63 are like that. These lovely sentiments of praise and thanksgiving to God do not emerge from out of nowhere. Starting already in verse 11 a note of darkness is introduced when the writer shifts from thanking […]
Colossians 1:11-20
Proper 29C
[…] is essentially a “thank you” letter. He begins it by thanking God for putting a church in Colosse. The central section of this letter also begins with thanksgiving in chapter 2:7. When in Colossians 3:17 Paul sums up his whole long Colossian argument, he talks about thanks. So why does Paul call these Colossians […]
Psalm 46
Proper 29C
[…] marriages crumble. The earth will probably move for not a few families the week of Reign of Christ Sunday when in the U.S. people gather together for Thanksgiving only to find some political argument over COVID or something shattering any Rockwellian sense of family unity around a well-bronzed roasted turkey. The earth moves when […]
Psalm 98
Proper 28C
[…] coming to judge the whole world. Now it’s just possible that some might find that prospect to be something just shy of a cause for exuberance and thanksgiving. Being judged might sound threatening to a lot of people. Indeed, as pastors we not infrequently counsel with people—sometimes dear saints in the final days of […]
2 Thessalonians 1:1-4, 11-12
Proper 26C
[…] of the persecution of God’s dearly beloved people for their Christian faith runs through 2 Thessalonians 1’s apparently disparate elements. Each of verses’ 3-12 major sections ( thanksgiving, suffering, judgment and perseverance) are at least informed by that persecution. Yet that theme may make this Sunday’s Epistolary Lesson’s proclaimers and hearers feel even more […]
Psalm 111
Proper 23C
[…] of herbs and water where love is than a rich feast where there is hatred.” Just watch your surly Uncle Lloyd ignite a political debate at the Thanksgiving Day dinner table and you will quickly conclude that delicious though Grandma’s turkey, stuffing, and mashed potatoes are, you wish you had just swung through the […]
Lamentations 1:1-6
Proper 22C
[…] a true Jew can never be is to be without God. So long as God is in the picture, lament can happen, and so can praise and thanksgiving and lots of other things but the point is that it is not the person without God who laments but the person who is with God […]
Psalm 22:19-28
Proper 7C
[…] you can see here. Although she gave this talk after a return to health, she cannot talk of her experience even then without her cheeks getting very wet from the tears she shed. Something about that combination of sorrow in the midst of thanksgiving seems to fit Psalm 22 and a lot of our lives.
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