By Keith A. Russell

Beginning with the third Sunday of February and going through the month of March, the church enters the Lenten season. The challenges to the preaching during the Lenten season are several. First, we need to overcome the tendency to equate Lent with personal self-denial as in “what are you giving up” for Lent. Secondly, we need to examine our own needs as we move toward the Holy Week/Easter period. Can we help other to experience something fresh about God? Can we deepen our hunger for the reign of God? Can we focus our need away from consuming to searching or desiring in such a way to reflect the psalmist’s plea “that as a hart longs for cooling waters, so my soul long for God.”?

By Keith A. Russell

Epiphany of the Lord, Baptism of the Lord, Second Sunday after the Epiphany, Third Sunday after Epiphany, Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany

By Marian E. Ronan

From The Christmas Cycle to the Beginning of Lent: The Last Sunday of the Christmas Cycle, Transfiguration of our Lord, The Easter Cycle – Lent, First Sunday in Lent, Second Sunday in Lent

By Marian E. Ronan

Reflections on the Lectionary Readings for December

by Rev. Dr. William J. Sappenfield

Reflections on the Lectionary Readings for November 2009.

by Keith A. Russell

Reflections on the Lectionary Readings for October

by Rev. Dr. LeAnn Snow Flesher

Reflections on the Lectionary Readings for September.

by Rev. Dr. Rebecca Pugh Brown

Reflections on the Lectionary Readings for August.

by Rev. Dr. Keith A. Russell

Reflections on the Lectionary Readings for July.

By Dr. Ronald J. Allen

Reflections on the Lectionary Readings for June 2009

By Dr. Keith A. Russell

Reflections on the lectionary readings for April 2009

By Rev. Dr. William J. Sappenfield

Reflections for the Lectionary Readings for March 2009