RCL reflection for Proper 13, Year C. August 3, 2025. This week’s reading from Luke offers a buffet line of topics for a sermon on the spiritual dangers of financial wealth. Jesus undercuts the value that people have always placed on money, especially in our age, and challenges us to rethink our priorities. (Image: Creative Commons)
RCL Reflection, August 4, 2019
How easy it is for our lives to be shaped by possessions and social media rancor, by media pundits and spin doctors, than by the life and ministry model of Jesus and the loving grace-filled power of the risen Christ! We Christians are called to walk a different path, to keep our minds and eyes set on things above, remembering that our unity is found in God. (Photo: Pete, Creative Commons)
Lectionary Reflection for the Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, Year C, July 31, 2016
Let’s challenge one another to take up a countercultural course of action and drop the vanity that costs us so much and yields so very little. Let us seek our wealth in faith, in relationship, and in service to God and one another. In doing so, we will indeed have enough –and then some. (Photo: daily sunny, Creative Commons)
11th Sunday after Pentecost, August 4, 2013
Instead of preaching about greed, how about lifting the abundant life of interdependence and joy that Jesus teaches? Turn this lesson around and celebrate living life with focus, clarity, and purpose–in the moment–with God at the heart of everything. (Photo: Lori Bee, Creative Commons)
Lectionary Reflection
August 1, 2010, 10th Sunday after Pentecost
How do we preach about the freedom in Christ that allows us to fling wide the barn doors and let go of our “stuff” and resources? This week’s text from Luke’s gospel offers a fine albeit problematic opportunity for the preacher who is willing to take some risks.
