by Brent Gundlah | Jul 6, 2025 | Reflections
Fourth Sunday after PentecostHospitality – Rev. Brent Gundlah First Reading (Galatians 6:1-16/NRSVUE)Gospel Reading (Luke 10:1-11,16-20/NRSVUE) When I was a kid, we generally went over to my grandparents’s house for major feasts — Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter and...
by Brent Gundlah | Jun 29, 2025 | Reflections
Third Sunday after PentecostOpen & Affirming Sunday First Reading (Isaiah 43:1-3/NRSVUE, adapted)Gospel Reading (Matthew 5:13-16/NRSVUE, adapted) At last weekend’s Rocky Mountain Conference Annual Celebration I decided to participate in a workshop entitled...
by Brent Gundlah | Jun 19, 2025 | Reflections
First Sunday after Pentecost”Trinity” — Rev. Brent Gundlah First Reading (Psalm 8, NRSVUE)Gospel Reading (John 16:12-15, NRSVUE) I was an English major in college but was required to take about half of my classes in other subjects — ones with which I was...
by Brent Gundlah | Jun 8, 2025 | Reflections
Pentecost”The Spirit” — Rev. Brent Gundlah First Reading (Acts 2:1-21, NRSVUE)Gospel Reading (John 14:8-17, NRSVUE) I was in my office this past Tuesday morning, struggling mightily to come up with something to say here today, when it dawned on me that a...
by Brent Gundlah | Jun 2, 2025 | Reflections
Seventh Sunday in Easter”One” — Rev. Brent Gundlah First Reading (Acts 16:16-34/CEB)Gospel Reading (John 17:20-26/CEB) During this season of Easter — which ends next week with the celebration of Pentecost — most our first readings have been from the Acts...
by Brent Gundlah | May 25, 2025 | Reflections
Sixth Sunday in EasterEyes to See — Rev. Brent Gundlah First Reading (Acts 16:9-15/CEB)Gospel Reading (John 5:1-9/CEB) The theologian Karl Barth once gave this bit of advice to preachers: “Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret...
