RCL reflection, Fifth Sunday after Epiphany, Year A. February 5, 2023,
Isaiah provides a pointed stewardship message – the proper use of our time, talents and resources. Isaiah’s words fit well with Jesus’ message to let our light shine. Elaine Ramshaw explores. (Photo: Rafael Pines via Pexels)
Follow God’s script and discover what’s important
RCL Reflection, Fourth Sunday ater the Epiphany, Year A. January 29, 2023.
God’s teachings help us know what’s important, but it’s so easy for us to follow the world’s “script” for our lives. This week’s lessons help us find new scripts to follow as God’s people. Joel Bergeland explores
Fishing for people through spiritual relationships
RCL Reflection, Third Sunday after Epiphany, Year A – January 22, 2023
How do we follow Jesus’ instruction that we become “fishers of people”? One surefire way is for us to establish and nurture spiritual friendships. Elisabeth Hartwell explores. (Photo: Hannah Nelson, Pexels)
How does your light shine to the nations?
RCL reflection, 2nd Sunday after Epiphany, Year A. January 15, 2015.
Strong Epiphany themes can be seen in this week’s lections, including baptism, calling and light. They can intersect in how how we understand the “light” our lives bring to the world through our baptismal calling. (Photo: twodolla, Creative Commons)
Inferiority complexities at the baptism of Jesus
RCL Reflection, Baptism of Jesus Sunday, Year A. January 8, 2023
What was it that caused John to hesitate when Jesus came to him for baptism? Perhaps he had an all-too-human bout of “imposter syndrome.” We can learn from John’s experience. Writer and pastor Joel Bergeland explores in his debut SOLI reflection.
Stardust
RCL Reflection, Nativity of the Lord, Proper III. December 24-25, 2022.
John takes the Gospel lead in this set of readings for Nativity, Proper III, reminding us of Christ’s cosmic context. Jesus is the eternal light of all creation. Our preaching need only convey the hope and glory present in John 1:1-14. (Photo: Frank Cone via Pexels.)
Only Immanuel, God’s gift to us, provides fulfillment
RCL Reflection, Fourth Sunday in Advent, Year A. December 18, 2022
So many Advent/Christmas traditions evoke nostalgia and longing for a bygone era that seemed better. This week’s lessons offer opportunities to recall God’s eternal gifts. (Photo: Garon Piceli, via Pexels)
Stewards of Advent hope
RCL reflection for the Second Sunday of Advent, Year A: December 4, 2022
How do we have hope in a world so full of suffering and despair? And where is God? This week’s readings bear witness to the waiting, the long seasons of pain, but also the hope we have in the not-yet-realized promises of God.
Explore Advent’s promise of the Peaceable Kingdom
RCL Reflection, Second Sunday of Advent, Year A: Dec. 4, 2022
John the Baptist proclaimed the coming Kingdom of God, but what was the vision he cast? Isaiah’s prophecy of the Peaceable Kingdom gives us a glimpse of what John saw coming with the arrival of Jesus. (Image: Detail of 1834 painting by Edward Hicks)
Preparing for Advent’s ‘Holy Disruptions’
RCL Reflection, 1st Sunday in Advent, Year A: November 27, 2022.
This season of longing for justice, for the healing and restoration of creation, for the Messiah’s arrival, begins amid our culture’s height of hyper-consumerism. Advent provides welcome disruptions from empire’s business-as-usual.
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