Living the Lectionary

This morning I did my fourth LA Fitness boot camp in as many days with one more to go tomorrow. I’m not sure why I decided to (pardon my F...

Mark 5:21-43 It is a story of two women healed (even if one is a girl). Both are anonymous – one named by a condition – the other by a r...

2 Corinthians 8:7-15 The context for this portion of the Corinthian correspondence is the collection for the saints in Jerusalem who ...

Psalm 30 Psalm 30 knows a thing or two about suffering. Enemies threatened. Health was lost. The mouth of the grave was wide open. Th...

Lamentations 3:22-33 Lamentations is not the happiest book in the Bible. It may be the most honest. The good news is that honesty...

Job 38:1-11; Psalm 107:23-32; 2 Corinthians 6:1-13; Mark 4:35-41 Last Sunday I drove from Toledo to Columbus through a Texas size thun...

Mark 4:35-41 It was Jesus’ idea to sail across the lake but it was the disciples who took him in the boat “just as he was.” It’s an odd t...

2 Corinthians 6:1-13 If the contentious Corinthians were not the proverbial “thorn” in Paul’s flesh they were certainly a pain in the y...

Psalm 107:1-3 , 23-32 Psalm 107 is a long song that details the troubles the people of God get into when they rebel against God’s comma...

Job 38:1-11 After 37 chapters Job finally gets his day in the celestial court, although after God’s opening argument Job surrenders a...

Tomorrow morning my brother and I will run our first race together. It’s a four mile out and back in Fremont, Ohio. Mike took up running...

Mark 4:26-34 I think explaining a parable is like repeating the punch line of a joke and asking “get it?” It never works quite as we...

2 Corinthians 5:6-17 Before you get overly concerned (and therefore less than confident) with “all of us must appear before the judgm...

Psalm 92:1-4; 12-15 Psalm 92 is listed as a song for the Sabbath day but it is a good thing to give thanks to the Lord every day, mornin...

Ezekiel 17:22-24 The prophet Ezekiel imagines the Lord as the One who provides shade and shelter and sustenance for all creatures great...

I’m writing this conclusion for Pentecost 2b on Sunday afternoon, May 27 as the last of two weeks’ worth of blogs I wrote yesterday and ...

Mark 3:20-35 So much for family values! It is clear from the scriptures that Jesus raised a ruckus, and people have been trying to quiet ...

2 Corinthians 4 13 – 5:1 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 is found in the occasional services book and suggested for use in times of illness or when...

Psalm 130 I’ve kept watch for more than one morning and as you might know the coming day is always too slow to dawn. That is the nature ...

Genesis 3:8-15 The story of our beginning does not have to be literally true to tell the truth about us. We, like our first parents, wi...