by Brent Gundlah | Oct 6, 2024 | Reflections
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...
by Brent Gundlah | Sep 29, 2024 | Reflections
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...
by Brent Gundlah | Sep 23, 2024 | Reflections
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...
by Brent Gundlah | Sep 15, 2024 | Reflections
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...
by Brent Gundlah | Sep 8, 2024 | Reflections
Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost”Faith Works”Rev. Brent Gundlah First Reading (James 2:1-17/NRSVUE)Gospel Reading (Mark 7:24-37/NRSVUE) Have you ever wondered whether Jesus, having said or done something, later wished that he’d said or done something...
by Brent Gundlah | Sep 1, 2024 | Reflections
Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost”Deceiving Ourselves”Rev. Brent Gundlah First Reading (James 1:17-29/NRSVUE)Gospel Reading (Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23/NRSVUE) Do you hear that? If you listen really carefully you can hear Martin Luther speaking words of...
