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Monday Meditation: RCL Year C, 2nd Sunday of Lent, Luke 13:31-35

March 13, 2019 by Gary Neal Hansen 2 Comments

Luke 13:31-35

The Gospel text for the 2nd Sunday of Lent (Luke 13:31-35) directs our attention toward Christ’s coming passion – albeit without being anywhere nearly as explicit about the point as he was earlier in Luke’s Gospel. Plus he compares himself to a chicken. Who would want to miss that? Luke 13:31-35 These lines are easy […]

Filed Under: Bible, Church Year, Monday Meditation Tagged With: Lent 2, Luke 13:31-35, RCL Year C

Monday Meditation: RCL Year C, 1st Sunday of Lent, Luke 4:1-13

March 5, 2019 by Gary Neal Hansen 4 Comments

Luke 4:1-13

On the first Sunday of Lent we take a step backward in the flow of Luke’s narrative to look at a very lenten issue: temptation. The Gospel text is Luke 4:1-13, the temptation of Jesus in the wilderness. Luke 4:1-13 Jesus’ three big temptations get all the attention, but a tiny little moment in the […]

Filed Under: Bible, Church Year, Monday Meditation Tagged With: Lent 1, RCL Year C, Temptation

Monday Meditation: RCL Year C, Transfiguration, Luke 9:28-36

February 28, 2019 by Gary Neal Hansen 7 Comments

Luke 9:28-36

This Sunday Western Christianity celebrates the “Transfiguration.” The Revised Common Lectionary gives us the story from Luke 9:28-36, because it is “Year C” when Luke’s Gospel is the focus. Just Luke 9:28-36 for Me Please The lectionary includes an optional extension of the reading, Luke 9:37-43a. I’m not going to discuss it. In Luke’s chronology […]

Filed Under: Bible, Church Year, Monday Meditation Tagged With: Exodus, Luke 9:28-36, RCL Year C, Transfiguration

Monday Meditation: RCL Year C, 7th Sunday after Epiphany, Luke 6:27-38

February 21, 2019 by Gary Neal Hansen Leave a Comment

Luke 6:27-38

The Gospel for the 7th Sunday after Epiphany (Luke 6:27-38) continues Jesus’ “Sermon on the Plain.” It is the parallel to the “Sermon on the Mount” in Matthew but the two are different in content as well as in location. The one thing they have pretty much in common is that while a crowd, a multitude […]

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Monday Meditation: RCL Year C, 6th Sunday after Epiphany, Luke 6:17-26

February 12, 2019 by Gary Neal Hansen Leave a Comment

Luke 6:17-26

The Gospel text for the 6th Sunday after Epiphany (Luke 6:17-26) is familiar and unfamiliar at the same time. The heart of it is the “Beatitudes,” the seemingly winsome but then difficult and paradoxical declarations by Jesus of what makes a person “blessed” or, in some translations, “happy.” Matthew’s version is much more prominent in […]

Filed Under: Bible, Church Year, Monday Meditation Tagged With: 6th Sunday after Epiphany, Beatitudes, Luke 6:17-26, RCL Year C

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