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2025-11-02T07:50:42-05:00

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Adventurous Lectionary Commentary for November 9.

Last updated on: November 2, 2025 at 7:50 am By Bruce Epperly

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The Adventurous Lectionary – Twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost – November 9, 2025 Haggai 1:15b-2:9 Psalm 145:1-5, 17-21 2 Thessalonians 2:1-5, 13-17 Luke 20:27-38 “Now God is God not of the dead, but of the living; for to God all of them are alive,” so ends a cryptic exchange between Jesus and the Sadducees. Resurrection, rebirth, and renewal are at the heart of this week’s lectionary readings. The Sadducees think they have trapped Jesus with a “gothca question,” but Jesus confounds... Read more

2025-10-26T12:59:33-04:00

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Write the Vision, Make It Plain: Lectionary for Pentecost 22

Last updated on: October 26, 2025 at 12:59 pm By Bruce Epperly

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The Adventurous Lectionary – Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost – November 2, 2025 Habakkuk 1:1-4; 2:1-4; Psalm 119:137-144, II Thessalonians 1:1-4, 11-12; Luke 19:1-10 On this All Saints Sunday, we have a plethora of possibilities for the preacher. In this time of chaos in which leaders intentionally subvert the law and delight in dishonesty and destruction, we are invited to claim the larger vision of the moral and spiritual arcs of history, which will outlive all potentates and prevaricators. Today’s scriptures... Read more

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2025-10-19T14:29:41-04:00

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Standin’ In the Need of Prayer – Lectionary October 26, 2025

Last updated on: October 19, 2025 at 2:29 pm By Bruce Epperly

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The Adventurous Lectionary – The Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost – October 26, 2025 Joel 2:22-32; Psalm 65; 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 16-18; Luke 18:9-14 God have mercy! This plea is the beginning and end of the spiritual journey. Not just for “sinners’ but for all of us. It especially seems so as these are important days in the life of the nation and the religious year: No Kings Day, Election Day in certain states, Halloween and All Saints, and Reformation Day... Read more

2025-10-12T16:14:30-04:00

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Divine Law Within and Beyond – October 19 Lectionary

Last updated on: October 12, 2025 at 4:14 pm By Bruce Epperly

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The Adventurous Lectionary – October 19, 2025 – The Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost Jeremiah 31:27-34; Psalm 119:97-14; 2 Timothy 3:15-4:5; Luke 18:1-8. Our relationship with God is filled with contrasts. The Infinite is present in the finite, and the eternal in the temporal. While God is present in every situation, the unfolding of life, our own and our institutional and national life, involves interplay of order and chaos, novelty and tradition, providence and agency, and our alignment with divinity and... Read more

2025-10-04T20:03:06-04:00

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The Healing You Need is Here – Commentary for October 12

Last updated on: October 4, 2025 at 8:03 pm By Bruce Epperly

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Adventurous Lectionary – The Healing You Need is Here – October 12, 2025 2 Kings 5:1-3, 7-15c and Psalm 111, 2 Timothy 2:8-15, Luke 17:11-19 I have chosen the secondary Hebraic/First Testament passage for this Sunday because I believe it more relevant and universal than the Jeremiah passage in its reflection on the nature of healing and the impediments we put in the way. Sometimes we would do we to follow the counsel, “Keep it simple, stupid,” than get in the weeds... Read more

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2025-09-28T18:35:46-04:00

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Faithful Challenge – Lectionary Commentary – October 5, 2025

Last updated on: September 28, 2025 at 6:35 pm By Bruce Epperly

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The Adventurous Lectionary – Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost – October 5, 2025 Lamentations 1:1-6, Lamentations 3:19-26, Psalm 137, 2 Timothy 1:1-14, Luke 17:5-10 In these troubled times in which the future seems uncertain and the norms we’ve lived by are being undermined by our nation’s leaders, we need to look beyond the present crisis to the deeper realities that undergird the historical process. Our help in ages past is our hope in years to come. At the heart of this... Read more

2025-09-23T18:52:04-04:00

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The Danger of Wealth – Lectionary Commentary – September 28

Last updated on: September 23, 2025 at 6:52 pm By Bruce Epperly

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The Adventurous Lectionary – Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost – September 28, 2025 Jeremiah 32:1-3a, 6-15, Psalm 91:1-6, 14-16, 1 Timothy 6:6-19 , Luke 16:19-31 Today’s readings could be described by the South African phrase, “ubuntu” or “I am because of you” or “we are because of one another.” These passages are relevant in the wake of the apotheosis and demonization of Charlie Kirk, and his influence on white males, who feel left out by our economy and the quest for... Read more

2025-09-06T07:13:58-04:00

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Jesus’ Art of the Deal – Lectionary Commentary September 21

Last updated on: September 6, 2025 at 7:13 am By Bruce Epperly

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The Adventurous Lectionary – The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost – September 21, 2025 Jeremiah 8:18-9:1, Psalm 79:1-9, 1 Timothy 2:1-7; Luke 16:1-13 If you’re looking for a good time from the pulpit, you may want to stay home and go for a hike or watch football this Sunday or opt out of preaching. At first glance, there may be a lot of adventure but there is not a lot of joy in this Sunday’s lectionary readings. The scriptures seem appropriate... Read more

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2025-09-06T07:08:43-04:00

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Finding a Way Home – Lectionary Commentary for September 14

Last updated on: September 6, 2025 at 7:08 am By Bruce Epperly

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The Adventurous Lectionary -The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost – September 14, 2025 Jeremiah 4:11-12, 22-28 Psalm 14 I Timothy 1:12-17 Luke 15:1-10 Today’s readings speak of sin and salvation and being lost and finding your way home. They join institutional injustice and idolatry with the healing of persons and nations. They indict our nation as well as yesterday’s Israel and every nation that goes astray. Nations as well as persons can be lost and ours is a time of directionless... Read more

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2025-09-01T15:22:47-04:00

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A Caring and Just Potter – Lectionary Commentary September 7

Last updated on: September 1, 2025 at 3:22 pm By Bruce Epperly

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The Adventurous Lectionary – September 7, 2025 – Pentecost 13 Jeremiah 18:1-11 Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18 Philemon 1:1-21 Luke 14:25-33 Today’s readings challenge our economics, and socially-accepted values. These texts turn our accepted US consumerist and capitalist growth and profit values upside down and call us to repentance and sacrificial living. No preacher can feel entirely comfortable reading, writing, or preaching these texts. In some ways, the images of God are both engaging and affirming (Psalm 139) and challenging and problematic.... Read more

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