Here comes my children’s sermon on Luke 4:21-30. We pick up with the last verse from last week’s Gospel reading. (You can find my regular Monday Meditation on this text here.) As I noted a week ago, this odd division by the lectioneers (is that what you call people who make a lectionary?) gives us […]
Monday Meditation: RCL Year A, Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany, Matthew 5:1-12
Last week’s lectionary Gospel showed us Jesus calling his first disciples. This week we jump ahead a few verses to the Sermon on the Mount. What did we skip over? A quick summary of Jesus’ ministry in and around Galilee: he did a lot of healing and he became enormously popular. No surprise at the […]