Mind the Gap: Lectionary Commentary

Are you looking for examples of repentance or justice to use in your preaching? This week's gap has a great blueprint for both of those. It also makes great connections with the gospel reading and even the larger liturgical season.

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"God is everywhere" is both law and gospel. Where do you feel pulled to preach this week: vocation? prejudice? self esteem? We love being in our Psalms Era.

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How many different times can we say the word "house?" Honestly folks, this gap is the most baffling yet in terms of wondering why on earth the verses were taken out, but we found lots of connections for Advent 4 and even bridging to Christmas Eve in this one. It's been an amazing year of Mind the Gap, and we can't wait to do more text study with you in 2024!

London Calling by Ryan Andersen

In which keeping track of whether we're talking about John the Baptist or John the Evangelist is hard. We've also got metaphor, tabernacles, and fleshiness to consider in this week's episode. We pray that God has made your Advent a holy and hope-filled season so far, preachers.

London Calling by Ryan Andersen

Verb tenses, movie connections, time traveling and more--that's what awaits in our episode about the gap in the psalm for Advent 2B.

London Calling by Ryan Andersen

Sometimes, no matter how much we prepare, studying scripture brings us to places we didn't anticipate. We're leaning into the tension that the season of Advent holds: light and dark, already and not yet. Keep awake, preachers.

London Calling by Ryan Andersen

Finding Your Roots, student debt, politics in church, and shepherding get covered in our episode for the final Sunday of Year A! We're saying goodbye to Matthew and looking forward to beginning our Advent commentaries.

London Calling by Ryan Andersen

We hope you're willing to follow us down the rabbit hole! Here's a list of some of the resources and media that were mentioned in this week's episode:

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We're noticing an interesting pattern in what tends to get left out of these scripture gaps. It doesn't hurt to remind ourselves that we respond to God's acts of faithfulness and salvation; God doesn't act because we've earned it! If you're planning to preach on the parable of the bridesmaids, we even found some links to it here in the Joshua reading. Blessings on your preaching, friends!

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