Psalm 71:1-6
Epiphany 4C
[…] right. The psalmist embraced this for certain. Psalm 71 in the Year C Lectionary cycle in 2025 falls very near the exact middle of the Season of Epiphany and so is in a way the pivot point of this season that begins with the baptism of Jesus and ends with his Transfiguration just before […]
Psalm 29
Epiphany 1C
[…] wonder. And although Psalm 29 may seem a long ways away from having a lot to do with the Baptism of Jesus on this First Sunday after Epiphany, perhaps there is a connection after all. Paul reminded the Romans that if in baptism we get buried into death along with Jesus, then we will […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
John 2:1-11
Epiphany 2C
[…] of life in his kingdom, and this he gives through the Son.” You can read it along with a short commentary on the Priest-Poet’s website. Here’s an epiphany to have and hold, A truth that you can taste upon the tongue, No distant shrines and canopies of gold Or ladders to be clambered rung […]
Psalm 50:1-6
Epiphany 6B
Read just the first six verses of Psalm 50—as the Lectionary would have us do apparently—and it all looks grand. It is a powerful summation of the almighty power of Israel’s God. The imagery is majestic and even fierce. God sallies forth from Mount Zion cloaked in splendor with tempests and fires and bright flashes…
Psalm 147:1-11, 20c
Epiphany 5B
Psalm 147 is a favorite of the Revised Common Lectionary. It seems to crop up at least once in each liturgical year and this is now the second time it has occurred in the still-new Year B cycle. This was the psalm—albeit with a slightly different configuration of verses—just one month ago on January 3. …
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