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...
by Brent Gundlah | Aug 25, 2024 | Reflections
Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost”Safety in Numbers”Rev. Brent Gundlah First Reading (Ephesians 6:10-20/NRSVUE)Gospel Reading (John 6:56-69/NRSVUE) I was looking at the volume controls on the sound board back there earlier this week and noticed that they...
by Brent Gundlah | Aug 18, 2024 | Reflections
Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost”Simple Wisdom”Rev. Brent Gundlah First Reading (Ephesians 5:15-20, NRSVUE)Gospel Reading (John 6:51-58, NRSVUE) Our family recently converged in the Chicago neighborhood of Hyde Park for vacation. It may seem to you like a...
by Brent Gundlah | Aug 11, 2024 | Reflections
Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost”Members of One Another”Rev. Brent Gundlah First Reading (Ephesians 4:25-5:2/NRSVUE)Gospel Reading (John 6:35, 41-51/NRSVUE) I won’t be so presumptuous as to speak for you, but all of Jesus’s talk about bread lately has made...
by Brent Gundlah | Jul 28, 2024 | Reflections
Tenth Sunday after PentecostRev. Brent Gundlah”Bread” First Reading (Ephesians 4:1-16/Common English Bible)Gospel Reading (John 6:1-21/NRSVUE) Just a few weeks ago, on a hot and humid Tuesday night in Arlington, Texas, Major League Baseball held its annual...
by Brent Gundlah | Jul 23, 2024 | Reflections
Ninth Sunday after PentecostRev. Brent Gundlah”Going About Our Business” First Reading (Jeremiah 23:1-6 / NRSVUE)Gospel Reading (Mark 6:30-34, 53-56 / NRSVUE) When we last checked-in with the apostles a couple of weeks ago, Jesus had just decided to “send...
