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• The Lectionary Gospel

  Luke 13:10-17

  Author: Scott Hoezee

  When the truth humiliates you, you are humiliated indeed. Worse, when a truth so obvious that it can be stated in a sentence or two humiliates you, then your shame is profound. It’s one thing if a… More...

• Old Testament Lectionary

  Jeremiah 1:4-10

  Author: Stan Mast

  Sometimes it feels as though the Lectionary has a mild case of Alzheimer’s, because it seems to forget that we just talked about a certain text, just a few months ago.  Now here it is again in… More...

• The Lectionary Psalms

  Psalm 103:1-8

  Author: Scott Hoezee

  There are some pieces of music, certain poems, some scenes in movies that are so lyric, so moving, so flat out beautiful that it doesn’t matter how often you hear it, read it, or see it: it… More...

• Lectionary Epistle

  Hebrews 12:18-29

  Author: Doug Bratt

  My colleague Scott Hoezee, to whom (CEP Epistolary Lesson Sermon Starter, August 15, 2016) with Tom Long (Hebrews, John Knox Press, 1997) I owe a great deal for this Starter’s ideas, compares reading this morning’s text to… More...

• En Español

  Hechos 8.26-38

  Author: Leopoldo Cervantes-Ortiz

  Acudiendo Felipe, le oyó que leía al profeta Isaías, y dijo: Pero ¿entiendes lo que lees? Hechos 8.30, RVR 1960 La lectura impone un retiro similar al apartamiento místico, y ese retiro literario vale tanto por abstinencia… More...