Lectionary Reflection, Proper 18, Year C. September 7, 2025. Mama said there’d be days like this. But weeks, or months, or even years and decades? So it goes with life and discipleship. The truth of the matter is that neither life nor discipleship is a guaranteed walk in the park. So take divine advice: choose life and carry on. Sharron Blezard explores. (Photo: Creative Commons)
RCL Reflection, Sixth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A, February 16, 2020
This week’s lessons give us the opportunity to lay out the path of the choices God offers and to describe the elements that a life of deep discipleship. More than that, friends, we have the privilege of telling the story of how radical discipleship changes lives. (Photo: Quinn Dombrowski, Creative Commons)
RCL Reflection for Proper 18 (23) Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C, September 8, 2019
From the sound of the disciple’s job description in this week’s gospel, most of us are doomed before we ever shoulder our cross. Where’s the grace and love in that? It’s helpful to look at a wider, longer view, to grasp all of the gospel witness. As Paul would later point out, we have different callings. None of us is beyond the grip of grace. (Photo: versionz, Creative Commons)
Revised Common Lectionary Reflection for the Sixth Sunday after Epiphany, Year A, February 12, 2017
God’s faithful and generous people are workers in God’s garden of this world–tending, cultivating, and equipping one another for growth and life. It’s an ongoing process depends on our willingness, both as individuals and faith communities–to let God control our plans and direction. How will your garden grow? (Photo: Roxanne Ready, Creative Commons)
Lectionary Reflection for the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C, September 4, 2016
Mama said there’d be days like this. But weeks, or months, or even years and decades? So it goes with life and discipleship. The truth of the matter is that neither life nor discipleship is a guaranteed picnic, cakewalk, or pie-in-the-sky supper club. So take divine advice: choose life and carry on. (Photo: Akuppa John Wigham, Creative Commons)
Sixth Sunday after Epiphany Lectionary Reflection, Year A
Christian, Christian, how does your garden grow? Who waters, who plants, and who gives the growth? Consider this week’s lessons as part of an “instruction manual” from the master gardener in how to be and grow as disciples. It’s not easy, but the rewards are myriad. (Photo: d-olwen-dee, Creative Commons)
6th SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY, Year A, 2/13/11
Love is in the air, and Americans are about to spend lots of money to celebrate. What about the love of God and neighbor? Will we choose life by loving and serving God? God’s love is a whole lot more satisfying than a box of chocolates! (Photo by internets_dairy used under a Creative Commons License. Thanks!)
