Living the Lectionary

Luke 14:1, 7-14 We took our Room in the Inn guests to the Golden Corral on Tuesday night which is why there was a dip in the profit marg...

Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16 When the human heart is healed by hospitality the angels are entertained and in our restoration they rejoice. The ...

Psalm 112 Evil tidings tend to strike fear into the heart, whether global as in warming or war, or closer to home as in loss of health o...

Proverbs 25:6-7 The first thing to say is that whatever we say about this proverb it was obviously written to people who had the ability...

Luke 10:13-17 The woman set free from her aliment praises God while the synagogue ruler standing up straight is actually quite bent over...

Hebrews 12:18-29 Accept the grace of God or else get burned. Not the best way to start a Wednesday afternoon, but then this text is not ...

Psalm 103:1-8 The “all that is within me” (or you for that matter) includes that which is less than praiseworthy so how can the “all of ...

Isaiah 58:9-14 We live in a time when Sabbath rest hardly happens, even when we sleep. But before you blame the wired 24/7 world take n...

Luke 12:49-56 This is not a “What a friend we have in Jesus” Jesus text, but then Jesus is more complicated than any single hymn or G...

Hebrews 11:29-12:2 The great cloud of witnesses commended to us for their ability to endure were less than perfect examples of faithful ...

Psalm 82 God doesn't care about the poor because they are poor but because they are people and God loves people. The trouble is peop...

Jeremiah 23:23-29 The dreaming prophets were good at prophesying pleasantries to the people because the truth would not have been well re...

Luke 12:32-40 This is where God’s “trust me” rubber hits the road. It is all well and good when “trust me” means the capital M me does t...

Hebrews 11:1-16 The trust in me theme of Pentecost 12c continues with what must be acknowledged as the trust poof text. (pun intended)  ...

Psalm 33:12-22 Psalm 33 continues the “trust me” theme of Genesis 15. Though kings trust in the size of their army and warriors the siz...

Genesis 15:1-6 Confirming the covenant by looking at stars too numerous to count is hardly proof of the promise. But that is the way it ...

Luke 12:13-21 Someone in the crowd was trying to triangulate Jesus, who knows a thing or two about healthy relationships between three p...

Colossians 3:1-11 Life that is not meaningless is a life hidden with Christ revealed when life that is meaningless dies. Therefore put t...

Psalm 49:1-12 Psalm 49 continues the theme of Ecclesiastes, namely, no one gets out of here alive. Or as my theology professor Walt Bo...

Ecclesiastes 1:2, 12-14; 2:18-23 The opening words of the teacher, son of David, declare "Meaningless! Meaningless!" If you di...