Living the Lectionary

John 9:1-41 The Pharisees ask Jesus to name the sin responsible for the man’s blindness even though the way they see it the parents are to b...

Ephesians 5:8-14  I don’t think we have to do much soul searching to find out what is pleasing to the Lord in the same way that we know fu...

Psalm 23 The comfort of Psalm 23 is found in “I shall not want” which is only true when one allows the Lord to be “my shepherd.” That is ea...

1 Samuel 16:1-13 The Lord does not judge by outward appearance or the height of one’s stature even though Samuel feels compelled to tell us...

I’ve got a new app for my 4G Android phone. It’s called RunKeeper and it does what its name implies. I’ve used it three times in the last f...

John 4:5-42   Nicodemus, hiding from prying eyes, seeking answers, looks for Jesus at night. The Samaritan woman, hiding from judgmental eye...

Romans 5:1-11 Since it is God’s love that is proved in the death of Christ whatever Paul means by being “saved from the wrath of God” canno...

"Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus)" - Salvador Dalí (1954) Psalm 95 Those of us who were born into Lutheran Church Missouri Synod ...

Exodus 17:1-7 The congregation of the Israelites is a pain in the Lord’s you know what. And poor Moses standing between this quarrelsome pe...

Genesis 12:1-4; Psalm 121; Romans 4:1-4, 13-17; John 3:1-17 Our LA Fitness boot camp kicked its own boot without the benefit of our teacher...

John 3:1-17   Some of us familiar with faith, comfortable in the pew of our choice, are more like Nicodemus than we care to admit. Not read...

Romans 4:1-17 I wonder what Abraham would think of the three children that name him father. All three claim first born rights that exclude ...

Josef Žáček b. 1951 - Resurrection 1988 Psalm 121 Psalm 121 is read at graveside services even though it would seem help from the hills is ...

Genesis 12:1-4 This is the story of ultimate faith, though to be fair I imagine the opportunity for advancement was limited for Semitic sep...

Lent arriving late this year has been underway for less than three days, which means those of you who have given up chocolate or eating out...

Matthew 4:1-11 It is right after Jesus’ baptism when The Voice from heaven declared “You are my beloved Son” that the Spirit led him into th...

Romans 5:12-21 The fifth chapter of Romans articulates the great reversal we make conditional by claiming it cannot be fully accomplished w...

Psalm 32 My guess is that we have all lived through more than a day and night of “when I kept silence my body wasted away.” Of course some a...

Genesis 2:15-3:21 However you read this story, as literal truth or origin myth, it is dead on about humanity’s fatal flaw. Living in paradis...

Exodus 24:12-18; Psalm 2; 2 Peter 1:16-21; Matthew 17:1-9 Lent is arriving almost a month later than last year and even those of us who do ...