This post offers visual resources for the Revised Common Lectionary and the Narrative Lectionary for the second week of Lent, February 25, 2024. The RCL focuses on the promise God made to Abraham and how Jesus invites his disciples to take up their cross to follow him. The NL continues in Mark with the healing of Bartimaeus. In all of these stories we explore the theme of faith, or, better translated, TRUST.
This post offers visual resources for the Revised Common Lectionary and the Narrative Lectionary for Ash Wednesday, February 14, 2024 and Lent 1, February 18, 2024. It includes introductions to both Ash Wednesday and Lent in addition to the texts for the week.
We celebrate Jesus’ TRANSFIGURATION this week. Therefore, the Gospel reading in both the Revised Common Lectionary and the Narrative Lectionary take us to Mark 9. Enjoy these visual resources.
This post offers visual resources for the Revised Common Lectionary and the Narrative Lectionary for February 4, 2024. This is the Fifth Sunday of Epiphany. The RCL takes us to the story where Jesus heals many and then begins his traveling ministry in Mark 1. The NL continues the journey through Mark with the sending of the twelve and the beheading of John in Mark 6.
Jesus’ mission is to go throughout the country both proclaiming the message of the Kingdom and healing the sick, possessed, and dispossessed.
This post offers visual resources for the Revised Common Lectionary and the Narrative Lectionary for January 28, 2024. This is the Fourth Sunday of Epiphany. The RCL takes us to the story where Jesus frees a man from a demon in the Synagogue in Mark 1. The NL continues the journey through Mark with the healing of two women in Capernaum in Mark 5.
This week we continue to see that Jesus has the power to heal people and restore them to wholeness and community. This is the work of the Gospel.