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Monday Meditation: RCL Year A, 6th Sunday After Pentecost, Proper 10 (15) — Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23

July 10, 2020 by Gary Neal Hansen Leave a Comment

Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23

In Year A, the Revised Common Lectionary skips Matthew 12 entirely, then takes a three week journey through Matthew 13, starting here with Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23. It’s one of my favorite parables: Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23 is the parable of the sower. Or the parable of the soils. You decide. (You can find my children’s sermon […]

Filed Under: Bible, Monday Meditation Tagged With: 6th Sunday after Pentecost, Matthew 1-9 18-23, Proper 10(15), RCL Year A

Matthew 11:16-19 25-30 — A Monday Meditation — RCL Year A, Proper 9 (14)

July 3, 2020 by Gary Neal Hansen Leave a Comment

Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30

For the last three weeks the Revised Common Lectionary had us moving systematically through Matthew chapter 10. This week we hop and skip through Matthew 11. The text is Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30, including the lovely words about Jesus yoke being easy and his burden being light — which must have sounded good to anyone who […]

Filed Under: Bible, Monday Meditation Tagged With: 5th Sunday after Pentecost, Matthew 11:16-19, Matthew 11:25-30, Proper 9(14), RCL Year A

Matthew 10:40-42 — A Monday Meditation — RCL Year A, Proper 8 (13)

June 25, 2020 by Gary Neal Hansen Leave a Comment

Matthew 10:40-42

On the 4th Sunday after Pentecost, in Year A of the lectionary, we finish our three-week journey through the chapter with Matthew 10:40-42. It started out with Jesus preparing his disciples for a mission trip. His lessons morphed into warnings of much later persecutions. And now we get this tiny reading which is ostensibly the […]

Filed Under: Bible, Monday Meditation Tagged With: 4th Sunday after Pentecost, Matthew 10:40-42, Proper 8(13), RCL Year A

Monday Meditation: RCL Year A, 2nd Sunday After Pentecost, Proper 6 (11) — Matthew 9:35-10:8(9-23)

June 11, 2020 by Gary Neal Hansen Leave a Comment

Matthew 9:35-10:8(9-23)

In Year A, the Gospel text for the Second Sunday after Pentecost is Matthew 9:35-10:8(9-23) — that is, the core is 9:35-10:8, and 10:9-23 is optional. I can see why they give the preacher the opportunity to cut it off partway. The text sort of morphs in the middle, subtly shifting topics. Matthew 9:35-10:8(9-23) 9:35-38 […]

Filed Under: Bible, Monday Meditation Tagged With: 2nd Sunday after Pentecost, Matthew 9;35-10:8(9-23), Proper 6(11), RCL Year A, Short Term Mission

Monday Meditation: RCL Year A, Trinity, Matthew 28:16-20

June 4, 2020 by Gary Neal Hansen 2 Comments

The Sunday after Pentecost is called “Trinity Sunday” in the West. If you frequent Orthodox churches you will know that pretty much every Sunday (really every single service in the year) is about the Holy Trinity. In the West we tend to need the annual reminder of the nature of the God we worship — […]

Filed Under: Bible, Church Year, Monday Meditation, Theology Tagged With: Great Commission, Matthew 28:16-20, RCL Year A, Trinity Sunday

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