RCL Reflection for July 7, 2019
Imagine how Jesus’ first and closest disciples must have felt when he sent them out with such bizarre instructions. Like those first 70 called to serve, we too can expect the unexpected when God calls us to love and serve through our various vocations. (Photo: Renee Grayson, Creative Commons)
Revised Common Lectionary Reflection for Proper 8 (13), Third Sunday after Pentecost, Year C, June 30, 2019
What is your calling? Some of us can answer quite readily with a call to ministry, especially if we’re the ones who stand in the pulpit and who preside at the Lord’s Table. But here’s the thing: We all have a call to follow Jesus, to live by the Spirit, and to walk with God. Our work matters. (Photo: eppytx, Creative Commons)
RCL Reflection for June 23, 2019
Most of what stands between us and freedom is fear. The question for us as individual disciples and as communities of faith is this one: Are we willing to be freed and open to change? We must be willing lose some (or maybe even all) of what we know in order to gain everything. (Photo: spaceamoeba, Creative Commons)
RCL Reflection, Trinity Sunday, Year C, June 16, 2019
Instead of trying to “human-splain” the Trinity we embraced its mystery and celebrated the communion of every last molecule of creation in the divine dance of the Trinity? What if we admitted that we don’t have all the answers, that we’re a bit unsure of the way ahead, but that we’re open to whatever the Holy Spirit reveals? (Photo: Fergal Mac Eoinin, Creative Commons)
RCL Reflection, Day of Pentecost, Year C, June 9, 2019
Thanks be to God for Pentecost and Paul! This annual celebration and the Year C lessons are filled with hope for world-weary and discouraged disciples. Yes indeed, we can lift our heads high in the light of God’s promises and stop wallowing in fear, doubt and self-pity. (Photo: Marianite Pentecost Icon, Creative Commons License. Thanks!)
Revised Common Lectionary Reflection for the Seventh Sunday of Easter, Year C, June 2, 2019
If we’re serious about following Jesus, there will be a cost. Yes, for us to truly be one as Jesus prays, for there to be freedom for all people, we just be willing to pay the price and accept the cost. Oddly enough, if we do so, we will find freedom ourselves. (Photo: Marc Falardeau, Creative Commons)
Revised Common Lectionary Reflection, Sixth Sunday of Easter, Year C, May 26, 2019
As we mature in faith and open ourselves to the vastness of God, our job is to look around. Where do we see Jesus? The answer, of course, is everywhere in every atom and molecule of creation and in the faces of our neighbors. But like the toddler playing peek-a-boo with a beloved adult, we have to open our eyes and look. (Photo: Dennis Jarvis, Creative Commons)
RCL Reflection, 5th Sunday of Easter, Year C, May 19, 2019
The way of Jesus is the way of love AND the way of breaking down barriers and drawing wider circles of inclusion. This kind of real, radical, big love changes things. It’s the key that opens minds, the warmth that softens hard hearts, the light that illumines the dark places, and the hammer that takes down walls. (Photo: Steven Lilley, Creative Commons)
RCL Reflection, 4th Sunday of Easter, Year C, April 12, 2019
Tabitha is one “sheep” who hears the voice of Jesus calling to her through the witness of others, and she in turn becomes a powerful witness to the good news when Peter gives her a second chance at life. Tabitha’s story is important because it reminds us that discipleship matters. Like Tabitha, let’s get up and get going. Our Shepherd calls! (Photo: Sonny Abesamis, Creative Commons)
RCL Reflection, 3rd Sunday of Easter, Year C, May 5, 2019
Through the stories of Saul and Peter encountering the risen Christ, this week’s lessons invite contemporary disciples and seekers to ponder their own faith stories and how they have seen and experienced Jesus in a God-soaked world. (Photo: John August Swanson, Art in the Christian Tradition, Creative Commons License)
