Living the Lectionary

John 11:1-45 Jesus stayed two days longer in the place where he was after he heard Lazarus was ill and the sisters know it. “If you had be...

Mathematical symbol for Therefore (or connect the dots for the Trinity?) Romans 8:1-11 The eighth chapter of Romans begins with a ca...

Psalm 130 I’ve done my share of out of the depths watching for the morning through a night that refuses to end. It may be the loneliest ...

Ezekiel 37:1-14 The whole house of Israel held captive in Babylon has been living the twenty-seven chapters of judgment God speaks throu...

John 9:1-41 The Pharisees ask Jesus to name the sin responsible for the man’s blindness even though the way they see it the parents are...

Ephesians 5:8-14 I don’t think we have to do much soul searching to find out what is pleasing to the Lord in the same way that we kno...

1 Samuel 16:1-13 The Lord does not judge by outward appearance or the height of one’s stature even though Samuel feels compelled to tel...

John 4:5-42 Nicodemus, hiding from prying eyes, seeking answers, looks for Jesus at night. The Samaritan woman, hiding from judgmental ...

Romans 5:1-11 Since it is God’s love that is proved in the death of Christ whatever Paul means by being “saved from the wrath of God” ...

Psalm 95 Those of us who were born into Lutheran Church Missouri Synod pews some sixty years ago will remember Psalm 95 as the Venite in...

Exodus 17:1-7 The congregation of the Israelites is a pain in the Lord’s you know what. And poor Moses standing between this quarrelsome...

Romans 4:1-17 I wonder what Abraham would think of the three children that name him father. All three claim first born rights that excl...

                                                          Josef Žáček b. 1951 - Resurrection 1988 Psalm 121 Psalm 121 is read at gra...

Genesis 12:1-4 This is the story of ultimate faith, though to be fair I imagine the opportunity for advancement was limited for Semitic ...

Matthew 4:1-11 It was right after Jesus’ baptism and The Voice from heaven declaring “You are my beloved Son” that the Spirit led Jesus...

Romans 5:12-21 The fifth chapter of Romans articulates the great reversal we make conditional by claiming it cannot be fully accomplis...

Psalm 32 My guess is that we have all lived through more than a day and night of “when I kept silence my body wasted away.” Of course s...

Genesis 2:15-3:21 However you read this story, as literal truth or origin myth, it is spot on about humanity’s fatal flaw. Living in pa...

Matthew 17:1-9 It’s only been six days since Jesus rebuked Peter, “Get behind me, Satan!” for not understanding picking up the cross as t...

2 Peter 1:16-21 It is a testimony to the conviction of the first disciples that anyone believed what surely must have seemed less of a c...