All Past Reflections

Reign of Christ"The Light of the Morning"Welcoming New MembersRev. Brent Gundlah Hey, so happy Reign of Christ Sunday everybody. Don’t feel bad if you didn’t get me anything because I didn’t get you anything either; it’s just not that kind of holiday. But it is an...

Twenty-sixth Sunday after Pentecost"Protest Songs"Rev. Brent Gundlah First Reading (1 Samuel 2:1-10 / NRSVUE)Gospel Reading (Mark 13:1-8 / NRSVUE) If it feels like the apocalypse is upon us today, that’s because it is. And I don’t say this because the present...

Twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost"Wealth"Rev. Brent Gundlah First Reading (Deuteronomy 8:11-18 / NRSVUE)Gospel Reading (Mark 12:38-44 / NRSVUE) Last Sunday, during the first of this month’s Stewardship Moments, Dennis stood here and told you all that I’d be sharing...

Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost"All Saints"Rev. Brent Gundlah First Reading (Ecclesiastes 3:3-11/NRSVUE)Gospel Reading (John 11:32-44/NRSVUE) A couple of weeks ago, Valerie and I got to spend some time down in the Island in the Sky District of Canyonlands...

Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost"Storybook Endings"Rev. Brent Gundlah First Reading (Job 42:1-6/NRSVUE)Gospel Reading (Mark 10:46-52/NRSVUE) The Disney animated movie The Little Mermaid made its way into theaters back in 1989. If you’ve been living under a rock —...

Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost"Inheritance"Rev. Brent Gundlah First Reading (Job 23:1-9, 16-17 / NRSVUE)Gospel Reading (Mark 10:17-31 / NRSVUE) I remember standing there in the middle of the track behind my middle school during gym class waiting to take my turn...

Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost"Good People and Bad Things"World Communion SundayRev. Brent Gundlah First Reading (Job 1:1; 2:1-10/NRSVUE)Gospel Reading (Mark 10:13-16/NSRVUE) Have you ever been mad at God? I know I have. About this time last year, my sister died....

Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost"Salt of the Earth"Welcoming New MembersRev. Brent Gundlah First Reading (Esther 7:1-6, 9-10; 9:20-22 / NSRVUE)Gospel Reading (Mark 9:38-50 / NRSVUE) This particular Sunday in the middle of the long season after Pentecost is the only...

Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost"Ask and You Shall Receive"Rev. Brent Gundlah First Reading (James 3:13-4:3, 7-8/NRSVUE)Gospel Reading (Mark 9:30-37/NRSVUE) Aleksander Solzhenitsyn was a Russian author and dissident whose writings shined a light upon political...

Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost"Names"Rev. Brent Gundlah First Reading (James 3:1-12/NRSVUE)Gospel Reading (Mark 8:27-38/NRSVUE) The Fields Medal is one of the highest honors that a mathematician can receive; indeed, it’s often described as the Nobel Prize of that...