Lectionary Reflection for Sunday, June 6, 2010
Second Sunday after Pentecost Year C
How about taking a slightly different approach to this week’s texts? Consider as the key point that God does provide and mercy has a face–yours.
And be thankful!
By Clint Schroeder
And, if we are indeed thankful, then surely a manifestation of that gratitude will be a generous sharing of the love and blessings we have received from a gracious God.
Giving hilariously: No-nonsense stewardship
By the Rev. Dr. Ron Lavin
The biblical corrective for mediocrity is joyful generosity. Stewardship Sunday is challenge to stop having a Lutheran Lite faith, rise above mediocrity, and get involved as a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ. Rise above mediocrity, greed, selfishness, and fear.
Let’s Stop Responding to the Past
By The Rev. Hank Langknecht
Is anyone motivated to “respond to past blessings?” Of course. But I will bet that although our brains acknowledge that yes, our everything came as God’s gift; and yes, an offering response is seemly; our hearts are not brimming with joy and thanksgiving at the prospect.
The Gift of Water (Living and Otherwise)
LECTIONARY REFLECTION: May 16, 2010
Seventh Sunday of Easter, Year C
This week’s texts speak of unity in Christ and living water freely given to all who are thirsty. Christians today have the opportunity both to point to the Living Water and to see that all of God’s children have access to clean water. Share the good news, and give so that others may live.
Happy Not-So-New Year!
Just Living: December 29, 2008
Last January, I embarked upon an experiment: 365 days without buying anything new, except for food, services, and certain items of clothing and personal care. I called it my year of “making do.”
The Things That Are God’s
Lectionary Reflection: October 13, 2008
One of the critical steps in moving from the illusion of control to a life of biblical stewardship is in letting go of the notion of possession.
Full of Sound and Fury and a Lot of Hot Air?
Lectionary Reflection: June 30, 2008
Do you ever wonder what Jesus would have to say to us if he came to our towns to teach?
When Stewardship Means Letting Go
Lectionary Reflection: June 16, 2008
Discipleship quite often puts us squarely at odds with the way the world works, with the structures of society and the systems of the status quo.
Biblically based practices turn dollars into sense
By The Rev. Casey Zesch
An irony: that we work hard to get dollars and then have to be saved from them! Lest our dollars – and the possessions they buy -should possess us, why not turn dollars into sense? A sense, that is, of personal, congregational, and churchwide mission.
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