Psalm 29
Epiphany 1C
[…] you will find not fewer than ten such commentaries from recent years. Psalm 29 comes up most every year on the Baptism of our Lord Sunday after Epiphany and it pops up here and there at other times of the church year too. If you have not preached on Psalm 29 in a while, […]
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.) […]
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, […]
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. We don’t stop noticing the bad things that happen, […]
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. We don’t stop noticing the bad things that happen, […]
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 […]
Jonah 3:1-5, 10
Epiphany 3B
[…] enemy. This felt like treason! Right in the middle of the Book of Jonah, in other words, and smack inside the lection appointed for this Year B Epiphany text is the spectacle of an insincere preacher being used sincerely by God. Here is one of the Bible’s finest examples of how God can (and […]
1 Corinthians 1:1-9
Epiphany 2A
[…] unfaithful Corinthians but also for Paul’s modern readers. But that hope has little to do with us, and everything to do with God. This second Sunday in Epiphany may mark the beginning of a mini-series of lessons or sermons on 1 Corinthians for those who proclaim the RCL’s Epistolary Lessons. Those who stick with […]
Acts 19:1-7
Epiphany 1B
[…] should. It would be quite another to indicate you had never heard of such a Being. Yet that is exactly what happens in Acts 19. In this Epiphany Season when we ponder the spread of the light of Christ throughout the world, here is a story that indicated that in those earliest days, there […]
Luke 5:1-11
Epiphany 5C
I’m intrigued by the way Jesus enlists Simon Peter at each stage of this miracle, and how, by doing so, Jesus leads Peter to conversion. The story begins with Jesus teaching a large group of people. As more and more gather and push in on him in order to hear his unique take on the…
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