As I write this children’s sermon on John 6:51-58 I am acutely aware that it is part of a series. In “Year B” the Revised Common Lectionary gives churches five weeks in a row traveling through John 6. (You can see my regular meditation on this passage here.) My first thought on every one of […]
Monday Meditation: RCL Year C, 10th Sunday after Pentecost/Proper 15(20), Luke 12:49-56
The lectionary skips a bit to give us Luke 12:49-56. Preachers who have taken a look are probably glad about that. The omitted part was Jesus discussion of the need to be the kind of servant who keeps watch for the master’s return. This time he weighed in on the scale of punishments for various […]