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Lection Reflections

A collection of 49 issues

Testing God

(A Lection Reflection on Luke 4:1-12) Let me put some thoughts in front of you, and you tell me if you've heard these before: * Trust in God. * Believe God's word. * Stand on the promises of God. * Step out in faith. Sound familiar? Sure -- we&

Your Messiah Is Too Small

(A Lection Reflection on Luke 9:28-36) Years ago, J.B. Phillips wrote a wonderful little book entitled "Your God Is Too Small." In it, he posited that what many people were busy worshipping, fighting, or ignoring was in fact an idol: their own limited conception of

Rage in 60 Seconds

(A Lection Reflection on Luke 4:21-30) If you want to say something happened in an unusually short amount of time, using "in sixty seconds" seems both specific and pretty short. This post's title references, of course, the well-known Nicolas Cage film Gone in

What Was God Thinking?

A Lection Reflection on Psalm 8 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have established; what are human beings that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them? Yet you have made them a little lower

Tying the Hands of God

If you grew up going to some sort of church Bible class, you probably remember getting old enough to ask those questions that drive the teacher crazy: Could God make something so big he couldn't pick it up? If God can do anything, could he destroy himself? Nothing blows up a class faster than a good

Is God a Communist?

Who said this? > Nothing left over to the one with the most, > Nothing lacking to the one with the least. Are you sitting there, saying to yourself "wow, that sure sounds like Marx. Didn't I read that in college?" Well, sort of, but not exactly. Here is the Karl Marx quote [https://en.wikipedia.or

Tall People and God

I'm a big fan of the early Saturday Night Live sketches (perhaps because I'm old enough to have watched them the first time they aired!). One of the great catch-phrases of those first seasons was the opening of the Weekend Update with Chevy Chase [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevy_Chase] dead-pann

"Brother, Are You Saved?"

If you were to ask most church members the most well-known verse in the Bible, they would immediately respond "John 3:16." A high percentage of them could surely quote it, as well: > For God so loved the world, that He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever > believeth in Him should not perish,

Reflection on the Lections: Amos 8:4-7

One of this Sunday's lections [http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=280] -- Amos 8:4-7: > Hear this, you that trample on the needy, and bring to ruin the poor of the > land, saying, "When will the new moon be over so that we may sell grain; and > the sabbath, so that we may offer w