RCL reflection for Holy Trinity Sunday, May 26, 2024.
Mystery. In this scientific, secular and ultra-traditional age, is there room for mystery? Yes! Oh yes! We need it more than ever! And Holy Trinity Sunday is the perfect occasion to explore it with your congregation. Deacon Timothy Siburg explains.
RCL Reflection for Holy Trinity Sunday, Year B, May 30, 2021
Our job as leaders, teachers, and preachers is to show the wondrous love of God beyond all knowing, trusting that the Divine One in Three and Three in One will indeed capture the hearts, minds, and lives of all who come to know the unknowable. Why would we settle for anything less?
RCL Lectionary Reflection for the Second Sunday in Lent, Year A, March 8, We need open minds and hearts for challenging times like these. We need continuing faith education to navigate rocky civil and political waters. Let us use scripture, this amazingly beautiful record of God’s interaction with humankind and creation across thousands of years, as the living, breathing work that it truly is. (Photo: Elaine Smith, Creative Commons)
Holy Trinity Sunday, Year B, May 27, 2018
The good news of Holy Trinity Sunday is that we have a highly relational God who desires us to have real life, and have it abundantly. We are, according to Paul, “adopted as God’s children,” no longer slaves destined to be fearful. How much our world needs this message of hope today! Let’s be good stewards and share liberally. (Photo: Larry Koester, Creative Commons)
Lectionary Reflection for the Second Sunday in Lent, Year A
Do you enjoy a good mystery? How about the mysteries of faith? Unlike Nicodemus, we generally don’t have to come covertly under cover of night to ponder and discuss God’s amazing love and grace or those aspects of faith that are tough to grasp. As faithful stewards, we do need to grapple with them rather than “check our brains” at the church door. In the pondering, wrestling, and sharing faith it deepens and is enlivened. Go ahead; give it a try if you haven’t already. (Photo: Coffee Shop Soulja, Creative Commons)
Holy Trinity Sunday, Year B, May 31, 2015
This is the Sunday where it’s tempting to rehash and explain away the truly inexplicable nature of God and the concept of the Trinity: God in three persons. God in three essences. God in three expressions. Good luck with that! Why not simply tell the story of God’s relational nature and abiding and life-giving love? (Photo: A Davey, Creative Commons )
Second Sunday in Lent Lectionary Reflection, Year A, March 16, 2014
Yes, we are charged with stewarding the mysteries of faith in a world that seeks ready, quick, and easy answers. Impossible? Thanks to the faithful witness of those who have gone before us, we continue to share the good news and sacred mysteries that defy explanation–and that defy sin and death. Along with Nicodemus, we still sometimes wonder “How can these things be?” (Photo: Punktraum, Creative Commons)
2nd Sunday in Lent, Year A, March 20, 2011
This week’s gospel contains perhaps the most “famous” verse in scripture AND its often overlooked counterpart. Just what are the limits of God’s love for the world? How do we measure and define them? Surely such love transcends the limits of limbo and human frailty! (Photo by Gil Megidish used under Creative Commons License. Thanks!)
