by Brent Gundlah | Oct 27, 2025 | Reflections
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...
by Brent Gundlah | Oct 12, 2025 | Reflections
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...
by Brent Gundlah | Oct 5, 2025 | Reflections
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...
by Brent Gundlah | Sep 28, 2025 | Reflections
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...
by Brent Gundlah | Sep 21, 2025 | Reflections
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...
by Brent Gundlah | Sep 15, 2025 | Reflections
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...