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Lectionary.pro
by John Fairless
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Lectionary.pro for the Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 24, Year A
Some days, it’s better late than never! Just a reminder that your humble Bubbas are also working pastors and that — as you know so well — a few extra hospital visits and a funeral or two can really work on your schedule as planned. Let’s press on! The Gospel is one of the most quoted and most...
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Lectionary.pro for the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 23, Year A
And the hits just keep on coming! The Gospel for this week is another difficult parable in Matthew’s temple sequence. The parable of the wedding banquet includes a king who destroys those who refuse the invitation, an indiscriminate welcome of “both good and bad,” and a jarring ending about a…
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Lectionary.pro for the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 22, Year A
Hold on to your pulpits this week, preachers! The Gospel is one of the hardest parables in Matthew — and one with the most difficult history in Christian preaching. The parable of the wicked tenants has been used, throughout Christian history, to justify the church’s replacement of Israel and to...
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Lectionary.pro for the Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 21, Year A
Another week, another great set of readings. Let’s think about preaching! The Gospel is the confrontation in the temple. Jesus is teaching after his triumphal entry when the chief priests and elders come to challenge his authority. He refuses to answer directly. Instead, he tells a parable that...
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Lectionary.pro for the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 20, Year A
The Gospel is one of the most disorienting parables Jesus ever told. A landowner keeps going out throughout the day, hiring workers even at the eleventh hour, and pays everyone the same. The all-day workers grumble. The landowner responds with what may be the sharpest question in any of the...
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Lectionary.pro for the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 19, Year A
Last week we heard the process for handling harm within the community. This week we hear how far the forgiveness extends. Peter asks the question we all quietly want to ask — is there a limit? — and Jesus answers by rejecting the whole counting frame, then tells one of the hardest parables in the...
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Lectionary.pro for the Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 18, Year A
The Gospel is a practical continuation of last week’s way-of-the-cross language. If we are going to follow Jesus together, how do we handle it when we hurt each other? Matthew 18 gives us one of the most concrete passages in the New Testament about how a Christian community handles conflict — a...
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Y’all Save the Date
As we draw nigh unto the end of summer, we wanted to get an announcement out about the Fall… and Advent… and planning your preaching as you get ready for Christmas. It sure does roll around, don’t it? Photo by Elena Mozhvilo on Unsplash John and Delmer are going to host an online workshop on...
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Lectionary.pro for the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 17, Year A
Hold on to your seats this week — the gospel makes a hard right toward Jerusalem and never looks back! This is the immediate turn from last week. Peter has just confessed Jesus as the Messiah. Now Jesus begins to teach what that means — suffering, death, resurrection. Peter is scandalized. Jesus…
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Lectionary.pro for the Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 16, Year A
This is the climax of the summer’s Matthew arc. Everything since Trinity has been building toward Peter’s answer to the question Jesus finally asks him directly: “Who do you say that I am?” Today Peter answers, and the answer shapes everything that follows. * Track One begins Exodus — the birth…
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Lectionary.pro for the Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 15, Year A
This is one of the more challenging Sundays of the year, and its texts all press toward the same difficult question: who is inside God’s people, and by what authority is the boundary drawn? The Gospel gives us the story of the Canaanite woman — a scene that has troubled Christian readers for...
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Lectionary.pro for the Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 14, Year A
The Gospel picks up on the same night as last week’s feeding of the five thousand. Immediately after Jesus feeds the crowd, he sends the disciples across the sea, dismisses the crowd, and goes up the mountain to pray alone. A storm rises. Some time before dawn, Jesus comes to them, walking on the...
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Lectionary.pro for the Tenth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 13, Year A
This Sunday marks a shift in the Gospel. The parables arc that ran through the last three Sundays gives way to a return to Jesus in action. Matthew 14 gives us the feeding of the five thousand — one of the most famous miracles in Christian memory, and the only miracle told in all four Gospels....
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Lectionary.pro for the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 12, Year A
Here in the middle of summer (and, perhaps, one of our sparser crowds of the season) we have a very busy parable section in Matthew 13: five short parables packed into a dozen verses. That’s a lot of focus to to try to hold in one sermon — so we likely have some choices to make heading into…
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Lectionary.pro for the Eighth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 11, Year A
We have built some real momentum in the readings for this first half of summer. Of course, you may have a congregation that is in a week, out a week — or, if you have lots of snowbirds, either your sanctuary feels more full or more empty. But the texts march on, and so do we! This is the second...
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Lectionary.pro for the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 10, Year A
This guide covers the readings appointed in the Revised Common Lectionary for the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 10), Year A, falling on July 12, 2026. The Gospel turns a new corner this morning. For six Sundays we have been reading through Jesus’ words to his disciples — the sending...
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Lectionary.pro for the Sixth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 9, Year A
In this session, we cover the readings appointed in the Revised Common Lectionary for the Sixth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 9), Year A, falling on July 5, 2026. Of course, you may be in search of something “patriotic” to say with the Independence Day celebration (aka, July 4) in America.…
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Lectionary.pro for the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 8, Year A
This guide covers the readings appointed in the Revised Common Lectionary for the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 8), Year A, falling on June 28, 2026. This Sunday closes the four-week arc of Jesus’ sending discourse in Matthew 10. The shape of that arc is worth holding in view as you…
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Lectionary.pro for the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 7, Year A
This guide covers the readings appointed in the Revised Common Lectionary for the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 7), Year A, falling on June 21, 2026. We are well into the green season now — the long, ordinary stretch of Sundays during which the church listens, week by week, to the long...
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Lectionary.pro for the Third Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
Hoo, boy… it’s great to be back in the saddle at my computer and in front of the microphone! I greatly enjoyed a short break to visit my family in New York, and I appreciate you all sticking with it while the audio has taken a break. I hope the printed materials continued to be helpful. * * * * *…
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Lectionary.pro for Pentecost Sunday, Year A
This guide covers the readings appointed in the Revised Common Lectionary for the Day of Pentecost, Year A, falling on May 24, 2026. Pentecost is the fiftieth day of the Easter season — the Sunday on which the church remembers the coming of the Holy Spirit. The lectionary offers several choices…
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The Seventh Sunday of Easter, Year A
Introduction This guide covers the four Revised Common Lectionary readings for the Seventh Sunday of Easter, Year A (May 17, 2026). This Sunday falls between Ascension Thursday (May 14) and Pentecost (May 24), and it has a distinctive texture: Jesus has departed, the Spirit has not yet come, and...
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Lectionary.pro for the Sixth Sunday of Easter, Year A
Introduction This guide covers the four Revised Common Lectionary readings for the Sixth Sunday of Easter, Year A (May 10, 2026). Ascension Thursday falls four days later (May 14), and these texts are shaped by the awareness that Jesus is preparing to leave — and that what he leaves behind is not…
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Lectionary Lab Live PODCAST: Special Edition with Bishop James Dixon
Bishop James Dixon joins John Fairless for a discussion of how lectionary preachers can build a sermon series when stepping out of the lectionary for a time. The focus is on the series, “Being a Loving Church in a Bitter World”, published earlier here on Lectionary.pro (see the original post…
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Lectionary.pro for the Fifth Sunday of Easter, Year A
This guide covers the four Revised Common Lectionary readings for the Fifth Sunday of Easter, Year A (May 3, 2026). The week’s texts circle around two related questions: * what does it look like to trust God when everything is falling apart, and * what is the community of faith being built into?...
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Lectionary.pro for the Fourth Sunday of Easter, Year A
Fourth Sunday of Easter • April 26, 2026 • Year A Introduction We begin with the four Revised Common Lectionary readings for the Fourth Sunday of Easter, Year A (April 26, 2026). This Sunday is sometimes called Good Shepherd Sunday because of the Gospel reading from John 10, and the theme of...
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Lectionary.pro for the Third Sunday of Easter, Year A
The Emmaus Road courtesy of The Missional Network (April 15, 2020) Welcome, friends, as we continue the Easter season. I have meticulously checked my sources for this week, but if I’m off again — you’ll let me know! RCL Readings Acts 2:14a, 36-41 The First Lesson — Peter’s Pentecost Proclamation...
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Lectionary.pro for Easter Sunday, Year A
Since this Sunday is different from any other Sunday, we are doing something that is both different and familiar (for those who have followed the Lectionary Lab for a while, anyhow). The podcast features the Rev. Dr. Delmer Chilton, co-founder of the Lectionary Lab and long-time preacher in…
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Lectionary.pro for Palm/Passion Sunday, Year A
G’day, colleagues and friends. We are just about here and it will be time to enter Holy Week. My prayers for strength and clarity for you during this “heavy” time of the year. Churches often choose either the Palm liturgy or the Passion liturgy on this Sunday, though many combine them. It’s a bit...
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Lectionary.pro for the Fifth Sunday in Lent, Year A
RCL Texts Ezekiel 37:1–14; Psalm 130; Romans 8:6–11; John 11:1–45 A “Big Idea” for Preaching The readings for this Sunday proclaim that the God of Scripture is the God who brings life where death seems final. In Ezekiel, a valley of dry bones—symbolizing a people who believe their story is…
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Lectionary.pro for the Fourth Sunday in Lent, Year A
Hi, gang; it’s nice to be back among the land of the living and (mostly) to have my voice back! Thanks for the notes of encouragement last week. I’m going to continue with the updated format we rolled out last week, giving some summaries of the texts for this Sunday, along with some preaching…
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Lectionary.pro for The Third Sunday in Lent, Year A
NO PODCAST (voice production) this week, as John has been sick and has no voice! So, written comments only. Hope to be back in tune next week! ********************************************************************************************************* Hey gang — thanks for the comments and...
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Lectionary.pro for the Second Sunday in Lent, Year A
And, we’re off! Thanks, everybody, for giving our renewed Lectionary.pro format a try. Please continue to offer your comments and suggestions. Just like the original Lectionary Lab, we want to be helpful to working preachers. (“Jesus and Nicodemus”, from the Seventh-Day Adventist Bible Discussion...
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Lectionary.pro for The First Sunday in Lent, Year A
RCL Texts: Genesis 2:15–17; 3:1–7; Psalm 32; Romans 5:12–19; Matthew 4:1–11 (Narrative Lectionary text and comments follow below) Theme: From Hiding to Trust Core Claim Lent begins with hard truth about sin, but moves quickly to mercy: in Christ, we are called out of hiding and formed into a life...
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Lectionary Lab 2.0
Delmer and I had 14 great years of writing and producing the Lectionary Lab blog and podcast… along with sharing workshop time with a bunch of you. Those were the “salad days” and shall never be repeated. But, I have been kicking around an idea for a lectionary preaching resource that I’d like to...
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How To Use the Lectionary Lab Archive
Hey everybody — I have posted a brief video that shows you how to access our archive of Lectionary Lab podcasts and written materials. It’s not the smoothest database I’ve ever seen, but it is searchable and you are more than welcom to it. Material for Years A, B, and C are included. Have fun!…
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Lectionary Lab Live PODCAST: The Final Episode (for The Reign of Christ)
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Lectionary Lab Live PODCAST for the 26th Sunday after Pentecost, Year B
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Lectionary Lab Live PODCAST for the Twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B
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Lectionary Lab Live PODCAST for All Saints Sunday, Year B
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Lectionary Lab Live PODCAST for the Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost, Year B
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Lectionary Lab Live PODCAST for the Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost, Year B
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Lectionary Lab Live PODCAST for the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B
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Lectionary Lab Live PODCAST for the Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B
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Lectionary Lab Live PODCAST for the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B
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Lectionary Lab Live PODCAST for the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B
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Lectionary Lab Live PODCAST for the Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B
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Lectionary Lab Live PODCAST for the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B
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Lectionary Lab Live PODCAST for the Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B
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Lectionary Lab Live PODCAST for the Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B
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