Living the Lectionary

Luke 4:21-30 The sermon that began so well has taken a turn for the worse and Jesus has no one to blame but himself. Somewhere in the w...

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 It doesn't matter if your language is laced with love if your words fall on deaf ears. Forty years later St. ...

Jeremiah in the Pit by Marc Chagall  Psalm 71 We will only recite the first six verses of Psalm 71 but I bet Jeremiah knew the whole ...

Jeremiah by Marc Chagall -1956 Jeremiah 1:14-21 This is not the kind of call a prophet wants to receive. Given a choice a proph...

We went to the Fort Worth Stock Show Friday night to see Mustang Magic. These are wild Mustangs who are given to trainers for 100 days t...

Luke 4:14-21 Jesus ends  his preaching tour of Galilee in the synagogue of his bar mitzvah. The standing room only crowd has gathered i...

1 Corinthians 12:12-31 Maybe Paul never looked into a mirror that wasn't dim (1 Corinthians 13:12) because although the nose migh...

Psalm 19 I've been attending yoga classes for a few years and if it weren't for the mirrors around the room I’d think I was qui...

Nehemiah 8:1-10 The exiles, including the lay reader's nightmare list of names in the omitted verses, have returned from captivity ...

So far (knock on wood and wash your hands) I have avoided the flu. I get the flu shot every year, mostly because I have a weekly Bible s...

John 2:1-11 The wine has run out and with one more “l’chaim” the guest’s goblets will go dry and the party will be over ahead of schedu...

1 Corinthians 12:1-11 “I do not want you to be uniformed, brothers and sisters.” I imagine that line didn't go over so well with th...

Psalm 36:5-10 You save humans and animals alike. While we depend on God to do the first, Lisa and I have been helping God do the latter...

Isaiah 62:1-5 The people to whom these words are addressed have grown weary of hope. They were promised a return to Zion with singing ...

The Baptism of Our Lord affords us the liturgical opportunity to remember our baptism which is a good thing to do. It’s not like being r...

Luke 3:15-22 It was a time of expectation, like when the planets line up in a way they haven’t for a long time and won’t ever again in ...

Acts 8:14-17 The Word of God spent some time in Samaria and promised a thirsty woman that there would be a day when Samaritans and Jews...

Psalm 29 The voice of the Lord is LOUD. Glory! Many people experience God in the beauty of nature; sunsets, mountain tops, misty lakes ...

Marie Talbot 1953-2012 Isaiah 43:1-7 This promise of God was penned by the prophet Isaiah to the captives who sat by the waters of Ba...

We still have lights on our house and a Christmas tree in our living room. Come Monday we’ll have to put it all away since Sunday is the...