Category Archives: Year B

Lectionary 26 (17th Sunday after Pentecost)Numbers 11:4-6, 10-16, 24-29; Mark 9:38-50September 27, 2009 Grace to you and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.  Amen. As we stand here at the beginning of our church's program year –     today marks our first day of Sunday School classes     and our newContinue reading “God’s Widening Circle (Lectionary 26, Year B)”

Lectionary 24 (15th Sunday after Pentecost)Mark 8:27-38September 13, 2009 Grace to you and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.  Amen. I remember when my oldest daughter, Talitha, was learning about perspective.She understood that our current position determines how we see something.So, when we played “hide and seek” in our neighborhood playground,   Continue reading “The Perspective of the Cross (Lectionary 24, Year B)”

Lectionary 22 (13th Sunday after Pentecost)Psalm 15August 30, 2009 Grace to you and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.  Amen. There's a commercial on television these days that shows people    dressed in casual and business attire alike,        each gripping a laptop computer like a relay runner's baton,    and running throughContinue reading “The Hill We Cannot Climb (Lectionary 22, Year B)”

Lectionary 21 (12th Sunday after Pentecost), Year BSunday, August 23, 2009 John 6:56-69First Sunday following the ELCA's Churchwide Assembly voting, among other things, to welcome gays and lesbians into the ministry Grace, mercy, and peace be to you, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.  Amen. There are three things about which weContinue reading “Our Offensive God (Lectionary 21, Year B)”

Lectionary 18 (9th Sunday after Pentecost), Year BAugust 2, 2009Exodus 16:2-4, 9-15 Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.  Amen. It's an ironic state of affairs that led the Israelites,    who were liberated from forty years of slavery in Egypt,    to pine for the good ol'Continue reading “Recognizing God’s Gifts (Lectionary 18, Year B)”