RCL reflection for Proper 24, Year A, October 22, 2023.
Questions of all sorts and for all kinds of purposes take center stage in this week’s Gospel. We can learn much! Deacon Timothy Siburg explores.
It all belongs to God
RCL Reflection for the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost Year A
October 18, 2020
What belongs to God? A Christian knows, at least intellectually, that all things belong to God. But we don’t live as if that’s true. We’re all tested and tried as the world competes for our allegiances. This week’s gospel sets us straight. (Photo: NASA Universe, Creative Commons)
Reformation 500 Mash-Up
RCL reflection for Reformation Sunday and the 21st Sunday after Pentecost, Year A, Proper 25, Oct. 29, 2017
It’s been 500 years since Martin Luther’s 95 Theses started making the rounds, and a lot has changed and will continue to change. The church is always reforming, and so are God’s faithful people. We are called–always–to love God with every fiber of our being and our neighbor as ourselves, but how we do that involves being flexible, open to change, and willing to listen to the Holy Spirit’s movement in the world. (Photo: Keren Tan, Creative Commons)
Belonging to God
RCL reflection for the 20th Sunday after Pentecost, Year A, Proper 24, October 22, 2017
As Christians, we confess that we believe in “God, the father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.” We ask God’s will to be done in the Lord’s Prayer, and we sing “Holy, Holy, Holy.” I guess we need to figure out if this is lip service or a life of service. Is God really Lord of all creation–including us? How we answer this question makes all the difference in the world. (Photo: Paradise Nazarene, Creative Commons License)
Reframed by the Holy Other
Lectionary Reflection for the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost Yr. A, October 19, 2014
This week’s lessons provide another opportunity to consider stewardship as being reframed and reformed by God. After all, as Jesus makes clear in the gospel lesson, eveything belongs to God anyway. (Photo: Al King, Creative Commons)
