Living the Lectionary

1 Corinthians 15:19-28 The day of resurrection is only five days away when the faithful will gather in the sanctuary in Arlington, TX to hea...

Psalm 118 On the morning of May 25th 2000 I was sitting in my brother’s backyard in Chicago drinking way too much coffee and nervously waiti...

Isaiah 65:17-25 Isaiah 65 is the alternate reading for Easter or the pitch hitter for Acts 10. No offense to Luke but given the choice I thi...

Some of us remember when Passion Sunday was Palm Sunday and if you wanted to hear what happened between “Hosanna!” and He is Risen!” you ha...

"The Tortured Christ" by Guido Rocha The Passion According to Saint Luke  If a picture is worth a thousand words then the sculptur...

Philippians 1:1-13 “Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus…” How is it that the church has failed so miserably at mimicking t...

Psalm 31 The psalms don’t shy away from suffering and psalm 31 is no exception. Lamenting a life spent in sorrow and sighing, weakened by m...

Isaiah 50:4-9a The word that sustains the weary is that the teacher himself was wearied by beatings, insult and spitting. Wakened by the wo...

Isaiah 43:16-21; Psalm 126; Philippians 3:4-14; John 12:1-8 I have a weather app on my pc. (app, short for application, is a word Apple app...

John 12:1-8 What do you do when the man who raised your brother from the dead comes for a visit? If you are Martha you serve dinner. If you...

Philippians 3:4-14 If anyone has reason to be confident in their Lutheran pedigree, I have more. Baptized as an infant, bearing a German s...

Psalm 126 The psalmist laughs out loud anticipating the new thing God promised through the prophet Isaiah. Like a dream come true freedom is...

Isaiah 43:16-21 “Do not remember former things…” is written to a people who taunted by their captors, “Sing us songs of Zion” sit by the wat...

Joshua 5:9-12; Psalm 32; 2 Corinthians 5:16-21; Luke 15:11-32 The Flying Fish Restaurant, on the corner of Montgomery & Lovell, has de...

ROMARE BEARDEN (American, 1914-1988) Return of the Prodigal Son, 1967 Mixed media and collage on canvas, 50 1/4 x 60" Luke 15:11-32 Li...

2 Corinthians 5:16-21 The theology of atonement or “Just as I am without one plea but that thy blood was shed for me” simply stated is we a...

Psalm 32 The sad truth about ourselves is that we don’t get to “happy are those” until our bodies have done some wasting away. It comes from...

Joshua 5:9-12 Forty years of “what is it?” manna and now finally something new! Time and again in their wilderness wanderings the children ...

Isaiah 55:1-9; Psalm 63:1-8; 1 Corinthians 10:1-13; Luke 13:1-9 Big Red, aka Evelyn Wilkerson, her body thirsting as in a dry and weary la...

Luke 13:1-9 There is no cause and effect between sin and a tragic death, but if you don’t repent you’ll suffer a tragic death. It seems as i...