RCL Reflection, Proper 7, Year A, June 25, 2023. This week’s readings invite us to think about matters of life and death — particularly the promise of new life that we receive in baptism through Jesus. Deacon Timothy Siburg explores. (Photo: Creative Commons)
RCL Reflection for the Third Sunday after Pentecost, Year A, June 21, 2020
Are you ready to do some serious letting go? Jesus is clear in this week’s gospel lesson that “Those who find their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it” (Matthew 10:39). Letting go is a hard, beautiful, and countercultural thing. (Photo: Sebastian Appelt, Creative Commons)
3rd Sunday after Pentecost, Year A, June 25, 2017: What’s a preacher supposed to do with these “hard” lessons for this week? If we set the discipleship bar too high, won’t that alienate the folks who want an easy life? Easy is not always the answer. In fact, most things truly worth having require expenditures of time, effort, and energy. Why should we expect the journey of faith to be any different? If Jesus’ life and ministry and the paths of his early followers are our model, most of us are in real trouble! (Photo: Barbara Kruger, Modern Art Oxford Creative Commons)
Third Sunday after Pentecost Year A Lectionary Reflection
June 22, 2014
Here’s the deal: this week’s lessons are not easy ones, but they contain tough words that we need to hear, ponder, and to which we must respond. Discipleship is not an easy lifestyle, but the rewards are everlasting and the promises are true. Speak the truth in love this week. (Photo: Jonny Hughes, Creative Commons)
