Unlikely Conversation: a Lectionary Blog

Always: Curious dad blessed with 3 daughters looking at the world through a Lectionary lens. Sometimes: Lutheran Preacher in Minnesota on the Edge in the Mid-Western Prairie and the Hiawatha Valley reading scripture and loving life. Often a new post every week for the following Sunday's scriptures.

Monday, February 5, 2024

Can you see the glory? Transfiguration and Mark 9

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Mark tells this great story in Mark 9:1-9, Jesus and three friends went up on top of a mountain. Four men walked up to this mountain top. An...
Tuesday, June 6, 2023

God cares about us--meditation on Psalm 8

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Psalm 8 invites us to consider God's glory and God’s concern with us and our lives.   The writer, said to be King David, starts out excl...
Tuesday, January 17, 2023

united in the cross thoughts on 1 Corinthians 1:10-18

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 2000 years ago preacher named Paul spoke to a church in Corinth. Corinth was located West of Athens. It was at the heart of so much life in...
Monday, August 22, 2022

entertaining Angels

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 Entertaining Angels? It’s been said, by more than one person, that humility and hospitality are basic Christian virtues.  Luke tells us Jes...
Wednesday, April 20, 2022

unexpected grace Jesus, Thomas, and us in John 20 and Revelation 1

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The story of Easter started at an unexpected hour: early on a Sunday Morning.  God often makes new life happen at unexpected times.  Truth i...
Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Joy-filled anticipation; Thoughts on Luke 24:44-53

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Where did Jesus go? The gospel of Luke ends with cliff-hanger Luke 24:50-52.  Jesus left his friends--but he didn't abandon them.  He we...
Tuesday, March 30, 2021

God of the Interuptions thoughts on John 13 and Maundy Thursday

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God’s in the interruptions… I've been looking at the story Last Supper. There are all these ways that God showed up that night and abo...
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Always: Curious dad blessed with 3 girls. Eagerly looking at the world his daughters are growing up in through a Lectionary lens. Sometimes: Lutheran Preacher in Minnesota on the Edge in the Mid-Western Prairie some place between the Hiawatha and Missouri Valleys reading scripture and loving life. I make comments on Monday or Tuesday about the next weeks scriptures and on occasion post a sermon too.
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