Weekly reflections and insights grounded in the lectionary to support preaching and study.
Lectionary blog for April 24, 2016 Fifth Sunday of Easter Acts 11:1-18, Psalm 148, Revelation 21:1-6, John 13:31-35 My sister and her husband attend a church that is part of…
Lectionary blog for April 17, 2016 Fourth Sunday of Easter Acts 9:36-43; Psalm 23; Revelation 7:9-17; John 10:22-30 I recently conducted the funeral for a woman in her 90s who…
Lectionary blog for April 10, 2016 Third Sunday After Easter Texts: Acts 9:1-6; Psalm 30; Revelation 5:11-14; John 21:1-19 When my older son was a preschooler, we had a book…
Our calling is to trust God, even when that trust leads us into death.
We are invited to join Mary and her response to Jesus’ sacrifice.
God grieves when we are lost and celebrates when we are found.
Two sides of the same coin, they help us find our way to God.
But God, the mother hen, always seeks to protect us, the chicks.
Like Jesus, we can struggle with what it means to be a child of God.
The important question is what did the disciples say they saw?
It’s about being a servant people invited to share God with the world.
It’s an agenda that means we need to be making a difference now.
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