All Past Reflections
Sunday, November 24, 2024
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...
Sunday, November 17, 2024
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...
Sunday, November 10, 2024
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...
Sunday, November 3, 2024
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...
Sunday, October 27, 2024
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 —...
Sunday, October 13, 2024
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...
Sunday, October 6, 2024
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....
Sunday, September 29, 2024
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...
Sunday, September 22, 2024
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...
Sunday, September 15, 2024
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...