By Chaplain Mike On Sundays, we hear the Gospel reading from the Revised Common Lectionary. Sometimes, I share a message based upon this text. On other weeks, I ask you to share your observations so that our readers can be edified. Today, we’ll be teaching one another again. Today’s Gospel This Sunday’s Gospel text showsContinue reading “Sunday’s Gospel: Jesus, Martha, and Mary (Teaching One Another)”
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Sunday’s Gospel: Sometimes the Samaritans Shame Us
By Chaplain Mike Seventh Sunday after Pentecost Lectionary Readings • Deuteronomy 30:9-14 • Psalm 25:1-10 • Colossians 1:1-14 • Luke 10:25-37 Today’s Gospel We can get tripped up by the most familiar passages of Scripture. We just assume their meaning because they are more a part of atmosphere we breathe than texts we have carefullyContinue reading “Sunday’s Gospel: Sometimes the Samaritans Shame Us”
Sunday’s Gospel: On a Mission with Jesus
By Chaplain Mike Fifth Sunday after Pentecost Lectionary Readings • 2 Kings 5:1-14 • Psalm 30 • Galatians 6:[1-6] 7-16 • Luke 10:1-11, 16-20 Today’s Gospel: Luke 10:1-20 (NRSV) After this the Lord appointed seventy others and sent them on ahead of him in pairs to every town and place where he himself intended toContinue reading “Sunday’s Gospel: On a Mission with Jesus”
Sunday’s Gospel: On a Journey with Jesus
By Chaplain Mike Fifth Sunday after Pentecost Lectionary Readings • 1 Kings 19:15-16, 19-21 • Psalm 16 • Galatians 5:1, 13-25 • Luke 9:51-62 Today’s Gospel: Luke 9:51-62 (NRSV) When the days drew near for him to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem. And he sent messengers ahead of him.Continue reading “Sunday’s Gospel: On a Journey with Jesus”
Sunday’s Gospel: Teaching One Another
By Chaplain Mike On Sundays, we hear the Gospel reading from the Revised Common Lectionary. Sometimes, I share a message based upon this text. On other weeks, I ask you to share your observations so that our readers can be edified. Today, we’ll be teaching one another again. Please remember the one main rule: MyContinue reading “Sunday’s Gospel: Teaching One Another”
Sunday’s Gospel: Teaching One Another
By Chaplain Mike I’d like to start a new feature on Internet Monk today. We’ll call it “Teaching One Another.” Each Sunday, I have been posting the lectionary readings from the Revised Common Lectionary. Then I have taken one of the passages (usually the Gospel reading) and given a devotional message from the text. IContinue reading “Sunday’s Gospel: Teaching One Another”
Sunday’s Gospel: God Visits Us in Our Sorrows
By Chaplain Mike Sunday: Pentecost II (Year C) Today’s Lectionary Readings: OT: 1Kings 17:17-24 Psalm: Psalm 30 Epistle: Galatians 1:11-24 Gospel: Luke 7:11-17 Today’s Gospel Soon afterwards He went to a city called Nain; and His disciples were going along with Him, accompanied by a large crowd. Now as He approached the gate of theContinue reading “Sunday’s Gospel: God Visits Us in Our Sorrows”
Sunday’s Gospel: Trinity Sunday
By Chaplain Mike Today is Trinity Sunday. This day marks one of the few feasts of the Christian Year that celebrates a reality and doctrine rather than an event or person. On Trinity Sunday we remember and honor the eternal God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. We will briefly consider this Sunday’sContinue reading “Sunday’s Gospel: Trinity Sunday”
Sunday’s Gospel: You Have Received a Spirit of Adoption
By Chaplain Mike On this great feast day of the Church, Pentecost Sunday, we bring to your attention one of the great passages in the Bible on the ministry of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer and the church. No comments from me today. No sermon. Just God’s words. May the SpiritContinue reading “Sunday’s Gospel: You Have Received a Spirit of Adoption”
The Appearances of the Risen Christ, 14
By Chaplain Mike We are marking the Great Fifty Days of Easter with a series of devotional thoughts on the post-resurrection appearances of Jesus. Today we look further at John’s story of Jesus’ resurrection appearance to the disciples on the shore of Lake Tiberias, with its special emphasis on Peter, from John 21:1-14 (Phillips). TextContinue reading “The Appearances of the Risen Christ, 14”
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