Narrative Lectionary

Street art with words
Commentary on Luke 11:2-4

Week 3: June 9, 2024 Theme: The Kingdom Reading: Luke 11:2-4 When we ask for [...]

Street art with words
Commentary on Luke 11:2-4

Week 2: June 2, 2024 Theme: The Holiness Reading: Luke 11:2-4 With the first petition, [...]

Street art with words
Commentary on Luke 11:2-4

Series overview The prayer Jesus teaches in Luke 11:2-4 follows the pattern of the commandment [...]

Cloud of birds flying at dusk
Commentary on Acts 2:1-4; 1 Corinthians 12:1-13

This Sunday symbolizes simultaneously beginnings and endings. It is a [...]

Trumpet being played
Commentary on 1 Corinthians 15:1-26, 51-57

From 1 Corinthians 11:1 on, Paul has been rehearsing elements [...]

Sign that reads
Commentary on 1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Although 1 Corinthians 13 is one of the most well-known [...]

Corinth Canal
Commentary on Acts 18:1-4; 1 Corinthians 1:10-18

While not exactly rose-tinted, in Acts there was an almost [...]

City shoreline of Thessaloniki, Greece
Commentary on Acts 17:1-9; 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

The movement between the Third and Fourth Sundays of Easter [...]

Gate in Old City Jerusalem
Commentary on Acts 3:1-10

In last week’s reading, Jesus promises that after he departs, God will send the Holy [...]

Christus ascendit hodie!
Commentary on Acts 1:1-14

The book of Acts begins by looking backward to Luke’s account of the life, teachings, [...]