Living the Lectionary

2 Timothy 3:14-4:5 Timothy was gifted with a grandmother and mother who taught him the sacred writings when he was a child which is why ...

Psalm 121 Sometimes even lifting one’s eyes to the hills to ask the question, “from where is my help to come” is more than we can mana...

Genesis 32:22-31 Jacob knows a thing or two about wrestling having held onto to Esau’s heel long enough to take away his brother’s birth...

Luke 17:11-19 The ten lepers meet the Lord in the land between religiously unclean Samaria and racially unclean Galilee of the Gentile...

(Uncle Ernest at Peace Lutheran, Columbus, Nebraska) 2 Timothy 2:3-15 " Share in suffering like a good soldier of Christ Jesus....

Psalm 111 The last verse of Psalm 111 should come first as “the fear of the Lord” or better, the reverence of the Lord is the beginning ...

2 Kings 5:1-15 She is a minor character, not even named; a little girl stolen from home and made a slave in the house of her enemy. But...

Luke 17:1-10 “Increase our faith” is a reasonable request and in the asking the disciples are obviously hoping for an answer in the affi...

2 Timothy 1:1-14 The sincere faith that first lived in Lois and Eunice might not be the best thing to rekindle in Timothy given the suff...

Psalm 37:1-9 Waiting patiently for the Lord generally takes more time than we are willing to commit which is why we invest so much effor...

Habakkuk 1:1-4; 2:1-4 Habakkuk cries out his complaint into the silence of God and wonders “what’s the point?” I wonder the same thing...

Luke 10:17-20 I wish my demons submitted to me but I’ll confess it’s more often the other way around. My guess is there are times you m...

Revelation 12:7-12 Why  doesn't  God just dispatch the dragon? I mean if God is God and there is no other then the dragon is just an...

Psalm 103:1-5, 20-22 Saint Michael and all the angels “bless the Lord” because they obey God’s spoken word and do whatever God tells the...

Daniel 10:10-14; 12:1-3 My favorite angel movie is “Michael” starring John Travolta and rightly so since it was filmed in Texas. (Holy T...

Luke 16:1-13 I don’t know what Jesus was thinking as friends made by dishonest wealth are more than likely “friends in low places” (Ga...

1 Timothy 2:1-7 Can we make supplication, prayers, intercessions and thanksgivings for a king, or in our time elected officials, while a...

Psalm 113 It is hard to sing this psalm if your home is still on the ash heap. That is the reality we dare not discuss when praising the...

Amos 8:4-7 How you hear this text depends on which side of the bed you rise as some who lie on beds of ease truly care about those who n...

Luke 15:1-10 I wonder if there was someone in the grumbling crowd who thought the carpenter from Nazareth would make a lousy shepherd....