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Cultivating Spiritual Growth
Lectionary Reflection for the Tenth Sunday after Pentecost, August 5, 2012
How’s the work of cultivating disciples going in your community of faith? Paul has some good words for spiritual gardeners in this week’s epistle lesson, and the gospel reminds us the master gardener’s mentoring that sustains us. (Photo by hans s used under Creative Commons License. Thanks!)
From Wrath to Worth
Lectionary Reflection for the 4th Sunday in Lent March 18, 2012 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God—not the result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus […]
Ultimate Reality: Goats, Sheep, and Judge Jesus
Christ the King Sunday, November 20, 2011
Lectionary Reflection
Sheep, goats, Jesus, and judgment–it’s the stuff of human wonder and worry. Maybe we’re missing the point when we scratch our heads and ponder which critter we really are. What is Jesus really getting at in this week’s gospel lesson?