Sunday, October 26, 2025

Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost”Humbled and Exalted” — Rev. Brent Gundlah First Reading (Psalm 84:1-7, NRSVUE) Gospel Reading (Luke 18:9-14, NRSVUE) Way back in medieval times, when I was in high school, the State of New Jersey required students to take...

Sunday, October 12, 2025

Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost”Gratitude” — Rev. Brent Gundlah First Reading (2 Timothy 2:8-15/NRSVUE)Gospel Reading (Luke 17:11-19/NRSVUE) I’ll admit it: I enjoy a caffeinated beverage every now and again (as the thirty-two ounce iced coffee sitting on...

Sunday, October 5, 2025

Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost”A Little Faith” — Rev. Brent Gundlah First Reading (2 Timothy 1:1-14/NRSVUE) Gospel Reading (Luke 17:1-10/NRSVUE) The finance business in which I worked for twenty-five years before becoming a pastor wasn’t big on...

Sunday, September 28, 2025

Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost”Prisoners of Our Own Device” — Rev. Brent Gundlah First Reading (1 Timothy 6:6-19/NRSVUE)Gospel Reading (Luke 16:19-31/NRSVUE) The decision to move here resulted in a lot of changes for my family and me — some of them...

Sunday, September 21, 2025

Fiftheenth Sunday after Pentecost”God & Wealth” — Rev. Brent Gundlah First Reading (Amos 8:4-7/NRSVUE)Gospel Reading (Luke 16:1-13/NRSVUE) Back in the fall of 2003, I, like the rest of New England, was still trying to process the fact that the Boston...

Sunday, September 14, 2025

Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost”Lost & Found” — Rev. Brent Gundlah First Reading (Exodus 32:7-14/NRSVUE)Gospel Reading (Luke 15:1-10/NRSVUE) It was a little after eleven on the Saturday night of Memorial Day weekend when my friend David and I rolled...