Confident.Faith
Lectionary Homilies from Confident.Faith
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Lectionary Homily for 06 September 2026 (15th Sunday after Pentecost)
Readings Ezekiel 18:1–4, 25–32 Psalm 25:1–10 Philippians 2:1–18 Matthew 21:23–32 Homily Transcript I do not make a habit of bringing other work I have done into these homilies,…
Lectionary Homily for 30 August 2026 (14th Sunday after Pentecost)
Readings Jeremiah 15:10–21 Psalm 25 (MT 26) Romans 12:9–21 Matthew 16:21–28 Homily Transcript Καιρὸς τοῦ φιλῆσαι καὶ καιρὸς τοῦ μισῆσαι· καιρὸς πολέμου καὶ καιρὸς εἰρήνης. You…
Lectionary Homily for 16 August 2026 (12th Sunday after Pentecost)
Readings Isaiah 56:1, 6–8 Psalm 67 Romans 11:1–2a, 13–15, 28–32 Matthew 15:21–28 Homily Transcript I suppose it is about time we deal with Romans 11 — not in the sort of…
Lectionary Homily for 09 August 2026 (11th Sunday after Pentecost)
Readings Job 38:4–18 Psalm 18:1–16 Romans 10:5–17 Matthew 14:22–33 Homily Transcript What sort of a God do you have? In one sense, the question can have only one answer, for the…
Lectionary Homily for 02 August 2026 (10th Sunday after Pentecost)
Readings Isaiah 55:1–5 Psalm 136:1–9, 23–26 Romans 9:1–13 Matthew 14:13–21 Homily Transcript To paraphrase Luther and Walther: ‘The sheep rightly judge their shepherds.’ To be…
Lectionary Homily for the 26 July 2026 (9th Sunday after Pentecost)
Readings Deuteronomy 7:6–9 Psalm 125 Romans 8:28–39 Matthew 13:44–52 Homily Transcript Scripture is full of metaphor, analogy, symbolism, and dozens of other such rhetorical…
Lectionary Homily for 21 June 2026 (4th Sunday after Pentecost)
Readings Jeremiah 20:7–13 Psalm 91 Romans 6:12–23 Matthew 10:5a, 21–33 Homily Transcript Persecution has not been the universal experience of all Christians at all times in all…
Lectionary Homily for 10 May 2026 (5th Sunday of Easter)
Readings Acts 17:16–31 Psalm 66:8–20 1 Peter 3:13–22 John 14:15–21 Homily Transcript There is only one extant example of a theatre trilogy from the Ancient Greeks: the Oresteia of…
Lectionary Homily for 02 November 2025 (All Saints’ Sunday)
Readings Revelation 7:2–17 Psalm 149 1 John 3:1–3 Matthew 5:1–12 Homily Transcript We do not commonly use seals these days (at least outside the legal profession and certain…
Lectionary Homily for 31 December 2023 (Eve of the Circumcision and Name of Jesus)
Numbers 6:22–27 Psalm 8 Galatians 3:23–29 Luke 2:21 We will ignore the Gospel today — the Gospel reading anyway, and, even then, only until the end of this homily. Instead, let…
Lectionary Homily for 12 November 2023 (24th Sunday after Pentecost)
Amos 5:18–24 Psalm 70 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18 Matthew 25:1–13 I assure you, the balance of the homily will be in English, but: Mit ihrem heil’gen Wetterschlage, Mit…
Lectionary Homily for Reformation Day [2021]
Revelation 14:6–7 Psalm 46 Romans 3:19–28 John 8:31–36 Matthew 11:12–19 The Jews were incensed: ‘We have never been enslaved.’ How could this Man tell them that He could set them…
Lectionary Homily for the 20th Sunday after Pentecost [2021]
Amos 5:6–7, 10–15 Psalm 90:12–17 Hebrews 3:12–19 Mark 10:17–22 Perhaps I am not prudent. On who is prudent shows a great deal of care and thought for the future. As our Old…
Lectionary Homily for the 19th Sunday after Pentecost [2021]
Genesis 2:18–25 Psalm 128 Hebrews 2:1–18 Mark 10:2–16 Adam walked with God in the Garden., and yet God says that it is not good for man to be alone. We tend to pass over this…
Lectionary Homily for the 18th Sunday after Pentecost [2021]
Numbers 11:4–6, 10–16, & 24–29 Psalm 104:27–35 James 5:1–20 Mark 9:38–50 Wealth is a blessing, but it is also a test. Will you be faithful with what God has given you? Or will the…
Lectionary Homily for the 16th Sunday after Pentecost [2021]
Isaiah 50:4–10 Psalm 116:1–9 James 3:1–12 Mark 9:14–29 You may be operating under the belief that our reading from James does not apply to you. ‘I am not a teacher.’ you may say —…
Lectionary Homily for the 15th Sunday after Pentecost [2021]
Isaiah 35:4–7a Psalm 146 James 2:1–10, 14–18 Mark 7:24–37 For God shows no προσωποληψία — a word that appears only four times in Scripture: in the verse in Romans just quoted, in…
1st Sunday in Advent [2020]
Isaiah 64:1–9 Psalm 80:1–7 1 Corinthians 1:3–9 Mark 11:1–10 Mark 13:24–37 It is always darkest before the dawn, and things in our society certainly seem quite dark right now. We…
4th Sunday in Lent [2020]
Isaiah 42:14–21 Psalm 142 Ephesians 5:8–14 John 9:1–41 We are all born deaf and blind. Hearing, we do not hear; and seeing, we do not see. We know God’s Law, for it is written on…
3rd Sunday in Lent [2020]
Exodus 17:1–7 Psalm 95:1–9 Romans 5:1–8 John 4:5–30, 39–42 Why do we test God? Has not our Father told us that He watches over and cares for us? And yet we doubt. At Meribah, the…
2nd Sunday in Lent [2020]
Genesis 12:1–9 Psalm 121 Romans 4:1–8,13–17 John 3:1–17 Abram was called forth from Ur of the Chaldeans; he was called to leave his country, his kindred, and his father’s house;…
1st Sunday in Lent [2020]
Genesis 3:1–21 Psalm 32:1–7 Romans 5:12–19 Matthew 4:1–11 Why do we baptize infants? We could say that it is the historical practice of the Church, that only a tiny — if vocal —…
Transfiguration of Our Lord [2020]
Exodus 24:8–18 Psalm 2:6–12 2 Peter 1:16–21 Matthew 17:1–9 Joel 2:12–19 Psalm 51:1–19 2 Corinthians 5:20b—6:10 Matthew 6:1–6, 16–21 Yesterday, with ashes imposed upon your…
6th Sunday after Epiphany [2020]
Deuteronomy 30:15–20 Psalm 119:1–8 1 Corinthians 3:1–9 Matthew 5:21–37 The great ‘promise’ of the Law is ‘if…, then…’. “Blessed are those whose way is blameless, / who walk in the…
5th Sunday after Epiphany [2020]
Isaiah 58:3–9a Psalm 112:1–9 1 Corinthians 2:1–16 Matthew 5:13–20 Some contend that it is possible to be ‘good without God’. We may find this appealing. Surely if we loose the…