Living the Lectionary

I bought a four pan steam table for the Calvary kitchen today. It meant I got to spend some time at Mission Restaurant Supply on White S...

Luke 9:51-62 Either the disciples are accustomed to calling down fire on folks or they’re blowing smoke. I’m voting for the latter. But ...

Galatians 5:1,13-25 Self-indulgence comes in many forms and even the perfectly pious can be bound by it. Granted the more obvious for...

Psalm 16 False gods promise pleasure or power or peace but only manage to multiply sorrows even if for a while we think ourselves satisf...

1 Kings 19:15-16, 19-21 There’s no going back to the plow once the yoke has been burned and the oxen have been eaten. Jesus makes the ...

I’ve been on our mission trip to Aqua Viva Lutheran Church, El Cenizo, TX all week and blogging was low on the list of things to do so fo...

Luke 7:36-8:3 A woman who can crash the Pharisee party with an alabaster jar of ointment is not a “Pretty Woman” as prostitutes in th...

Galatians 2:11-21 Paul has a problem with Peter who formerly went where no Jew had gone before but now under pressure has changed his beh...

Psalm 32 Silence is golden, unless you have something you need to say. The psalmist, which in the way of the psalms is always meant to b...

2 Samuel 11:26-12:15 “Each one is tempted when, by one’s own evil desire, one is dragged away and enticed. Then, after desire has conceiv...

Mary Ruth found herself a "Tika" cat who was destined for the shelter and persuaded us to say yes to her bringing it home by tex...

Luke 7:11-17 Two parades meet in the city of Nain . One led by Jesus. The other by a weeping widow. The Jesus parade, having just witness...

Galatians 1:11-24 You don’t have to like the apostle Paul to appreciate what the Lord accomplished through him. Truth is he seems to be r...

Psalm 30 Sometimes the joy scheduled for the morning has to wait through many nights of weeping before it can greet us with the dawn of ...

1 Kings 17:17-24 The widow and the prophet have the same reaction to the death of the child even though the prophet is more polite - “...

We bid farewell our cat Tika (pronounced tick-ah) today. She came to our house as a kitten when daughter Mary Ruth (17) was just learning...

Luke 7:1-10 I think the remarkable thing about the centurion is that he loves the people of the land he was sent to occupy. The Romans w...

Galatians 1:1-12 The Galatians really got under Paul’s skin and despite the grace afforded to the “chief of sinners though I be” the “l...

Psalm 96:1-6 All the gods of the peoples are small g idol gods. It’s a bold statement to make in a pluralistic culture where many would...

1 Kings 8:22-23, 41-43 In the verses the lectionary leaves out Solomon wonders if God whom “the highest heaven cannot contain” will be fo...