Lectionary Commentaries » Lectionary Commentaries: Year B

All Creation Is Raised Up - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the Great Economy of the Good Shepherd. Care for Creation Commentary ...

A flourishing planet in which all of life together is filled with the glory of God. - Dennis Ormseth Care ...

Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth. - Dennis Ormseth  Care for Creation Commentary on the Common ...

The true vine is the sign of right relationship—Creator, people, and land interrelated. - Dennis Ormseth Care for Creation Commentary ...

Our human harmony with all of life is grounded in the great, all-encompassing, self-giving of God. - Dennis Ormseth Care ...

In Pentecost, the whole creation is in process of being reconciled and incorporated into Christ. - Dennis Ormseth Care for ...

Our economy should reflect the self-giving of God’s gift of creation, the life of Jesus, and the sharing in the ...

“This is what love looks like!” - Tom Mundahl reflects on resisting global climate change. Care for Creation Commentary on the ...

Good Laws or Pure Persons? - Amy Carr reflects on the nature of pollution. Care for Creation Commentary on the ...

Thinking about the Unthinkable - Tom Mundahl reflects on our desert struggle in the time of climate crisis. Care for ...

Let's Just Start Over! - Tom Mundahl reflects on the start of Advent in the midst of pandemic, climate crisis, ...

Now is the acceptable time—to speak out boldly! - Leah Schade reflects on prophetic voice in the midst of the storm. Care ...

Fire and Wind - Leah Schade reflects on letting the Pentecostal fires and the winds of the Spirit transform your congregation into ...

Here Am I! - Leah Schade reflects on answering the call to love and serve creation. Care for Creation Commentary ...

Earth's Child – Tom Mundahl reflects on the arrival of the Prince of Peace. Care for Creation Commentary on the Revised ...

From Dust, To Dust  – Kris Litman-Koon explores how Ash Wednesday is an invitation to reassess what we value with ...

Root from Dry Ground - Kiara Jorgenson reflects on the theme of water during Holy Week. Care for Creation Commentary ...

In Celebration of St. Francis - Nancy Wright reflects on four themes of creation care in this Sunday's readings. Care for ...

Returning to Our Origins  - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the start of our Lenten journey. Care for Creation Commentary on ...

An Environmentalist-Turned-Pastor Reflects on Ash Wednesday - Lois Sorensen. Care for Creation Commentary on the Revised Common Lectionary  Readings for Ash ...

Ending Our Exile from Creation - Tom Mundahl reflects on owning the responsibilities of our priesthood. Care for Creation Commentary ...

Giving, Receiving, and Giving Again - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the fullness of God. Care for Creation Commentary on the Revised ...

A Time for Gathering – Tom Mundahl reflects on freeing all creatures to dwell in peace and mutual respect. Care for ...

Coming Home - Tom Mundahl reflects on a return from exile. Care for Creation Commentary on the Common Lectionary  Readings ...

God's Plan -  Nick Utphall reflects on the order(s) of the universe and a baby. Care for Creation Commentary on ...

And on Earth – Peace: A Christmas Eve Eco-Reflection by Leah D. Schade Care for Creation Commentary on the Revised ...

Displaced and Found by God -  Nick Utphall reflects on the place of baby Jesus in a pandemic. Care for ...

An Ecological Concern Far More Powerful Than Stewardship - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the priesthood of all believers meaning that we ...

Responding to the Reign of Christ - Drew Tucker reflects on our language around God’s influence in our lives and ...

The Transformation of All Life - Dennis Ormseth reflects on Jesus' life and death. Care for Creation Commentary on the Common Lectionary  ...

A Realistic, Optimistic Hope - Drew Tucker reflects on end times, resilience, and our place in the birth pangs of ...

Diversity and Unity, Uniqueness and Sameness - Jeremiah Sassaman reflects on loving all and being "with" all humanity and creation ...

Restored to the Eternal Motion of God's Love - Dennis Ormseth reflects on Jesus calling us from self-promotion and self-interest ...

The Beginning of Abundance Is at the End of Scarcity - Drew Tucker reflects on how this week’s readings relate ...

Creation Is Our Neighborhood - Jeremiah Sassaman reflects on loving our neighbors. Care for Creation Commentary on the Common Lectionary  ...

Practice Resurrection - Tom Mundahl reflects on the story told by how we live. Care for Creation Commentary on the ...

Called to the Dance - Tom Mundahl reflects on making room. Care for Creation Commentary on the Common Lectionary Readings ...

The Story of Bartimaeus - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the social, economic, political, and cosmological features of the Gospel. Care for ...

Do You See What I See? - Amy Carr reflects on walking without stumbling along waterways, roadsides, and temple byways ...

The Season of Creation is an optional season of the church year that celebrates God the creator and various domains ...

Act, and Do Not Lose Hope! - Leah Schade reflects on living in a house divided against itself. Care for ...

Mighty Cedars and Impertinent Mustard Plants: Signs of the Kin-dom of God - Leah Schade reflects on every green shoot ...

Life Outside the Garden of Goodness - Dennis Ormseth reflects on overcoming the hostilities that divide us. Care for Creation ...

A Costly Calling - Tom Mundahl reflects on the courage and action required to be prophetic for creation. Care for Creation ...

Our ecumenical companion site, www.LetAllCreationPraise.org , is maintained by long-time supporter and fellow Lutheran restoring creation, Nick Utphall. This site ...

We need wisdom to sustain us as we live with the rest of Earth community. - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the ...

We Await the Transformation of the Cosmos. - Dennis Ormseth reflects on an orientation to God's Creation in the season of ...

Thinking the Unthinkable - Tom Mundahl reflects on our communal lament and hope for wholeness. Care for Creation Commentary on ...

Stay Alert with Hope; and Beware the Consumers of Christmas. - Tom Mundahl reflects on hope, watching, and serving. Care ...

Advent Is about Gathering for the New Creation. - Dennis Ormseth reflects on wilderness. Care for Creation Commentary on the Common ...

Rejoice? - Tom Mundahl reflects on joy in the midst of grief. Care for Creation Commentary on the Common Lectionary  ...

Joyful Anticipation of the Transformation of Creation - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the cosmological significance of Christ. Care for Creation Commentary ...

Living the Anticipation, with Joy and New Light - Tom Mundahl reflects on what it means to be whole. Care ...

Courage - Tom Mundahl reflects on beholding versus seeing. Care for Creation Commentary on the Common Lectionary  Readings for the ...

Bearing God into the World - Dennis Ormseth reflects on Christ's birth opening space and time for the renewal of Earth ...

Jesus Ushers in a New Creation - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the new creation we experience in baptism. Care for Creation ...

Planting Trees as Symbol and Expression of the Restoration of Creation - Dennis Ormseth reflects on God's presence in creation. Care ...

God Is the God of Embodiment throughout Earth and Sky! - Dennis Ormseth reflects on God's presence calling us to care ...

This Changes Everything: No Longer Business as Usual - Dennis Ormseth reflects on Jesus inviting the common folk to join him ...

It's Time to Break with Business as Usual and Tend God's Creation - Dennis Ormseth reflects on what we can learn ...

For Those Who Are in Christ, Creation Is New! - Dennis Ormseth reflects on driving out the demon of climate change ...

Divorced, Together -  Nick Utphall reflects on the connections in the family of creation. Care for Creation Commentary on the ...

Join the Hymn of All Creation - Tom Mundahl reflects on ministering to creation as priests of God. Care for ...

All Nature Sings! - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the incarnate God, given for all creation. Care for Creation Commentary on the ...

If You Would Experience God, You Must Fall in Love with Earth - Dennis Ormseth reflects on baptism as a cosmic ...

New Creation Is Proactive: Regenerative and Restoring - Dennis Ormseth reflects on becoming full participants in maximizing life's creativity. Care ...

". . . a spirit from on high is poured out on us, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field" ...

Coming Down to Earth - Tom Mundahl reflects on our vocation to make earth a hospitable household for all. Care ...

Turning Around and Rethinking the "Royal Theology" of Our Time - Tom Mundahl reflects on the appeal of kingdom, power, ...

Formed to “See” in the Way of the Cross - Robert Saler reflects on the scandalous particularity of our particular ...

Expend your life for Jesus and the gospel of new creation, and you will save it. – Tom Mundahl reflects on ...

Breathe in the Fragrance of Creation's Renewal – Tom Mundahl reflects on faith and courage for the renewal of creation. Care ...

Projection, Humility, and the Call for Justice - Robert Saler reflects on preaching care for creation. Care for Creation Commentary ...

Let’s have a Lenten fast from our consumer economy! – Tom Mundahl reflects on the continuation and completion of the Sabbath ...

Loving the Cosmos as God Does - Tom Mundahl reflects on repenting of the "windigo" way. Care for Creation Commentary ...

Preaching the Adventure of Passion – Robert Saler reflects on being a listening church. Care for Creation Commentary on the Common ...

How can we allow the religion of consumption to threaten God’s future? – Tom Mundahl reflects on turning from darkness to ...

Jesus and the Journey of Overcoming - Robert Saler reflects on God's healing. Care for Creation Commentary on the Common ...

Wilderness As a Place of Possibilities - Tom Mundahl reflects on finding hope in barrenness. Care for Creation Commentary on ...

Getting Real about the Mortality of the Earth - Robert Saler reflects on renouncing control over outcomes. Care for Creation ...

Wisdom from Gardening - Tom Mundahl reflects on the seed that dies to bear fruit. Care for Creation Commentary on ...

More than Eco-Palms - Leah Schade reflects on ecojustice and Passion Sunday. Care for Creation Commentary on the Common Lectionary ...

“How very good and pleasant it is when kindred live together in unity!” - Dennis Ormseth reflects on community, trinity, and ...

The Self-Giving of the Community is Rooted in the Self-Giving of the Creator. - Dennis Ormseth reflects on what it means ...

Earth Itself Arose - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the Spirit of creation. Care for Creation Commentary on the Common Lectionary  Readings ...

The Transformation of All Life - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the reorientation of creation to its sacred center. Care for Creation ...

A Meal for All Sorts of Hunger - Dennis Ormseth reflects on a broad resurrection vision. Care for Creation Commentary on ...

Jesus is the Gardener - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the garden as the place of restoration. Care for Creation Commentary on ...

Creation is our Home, the Abiding Place of Nurture and Sustenance - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the manner with which we ...

We do indeed have this “good shepherd” in whose presence we may dwell all our days. - Dennis Ormseth reflects on ...

In Christ's Resurrection the Earth Itself Arose - Dennis Ormseth reflects on creation acting on behalf of its Creator. Care for ...

Vine and Branches Rooted in God’s Good Earth - Dennis Ormseth reflects on hope for all who live in exile from ...

Living the Ecological Vocation - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the source of new life for all creation. Care for Creation Commentary ...

The Season of Creation is an optional season of the church year that celebrates God the creator and various domains ...

Everything Is Changed - Dennis Ormseth reflects on reorientation of the community to God's creation. Care for Creation Commentary on the ...

Liberation and Restoration of the Whole Creation. - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the relations of the Holy Trinity encompassing all ...

A New and Restorative Ordering of Life - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the kingdom of God and the great ecology ...

How is the God of creation related to the storms of global climate change? - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the interconnected ...

The Full Sacredness of All the Earth - Dennis Ormseth reflects on Jesus crossing and removing boundaries. Care for Creation ...

God Does Not Desire That Creatures Suffer  - Amy Carr reflects on waiting and suffering, fairness and balance. Care for ...

Congregations who embrace care for creation will find joy in the initiatives they undertake. - Dennis Ormseth reflects on becoming faithful ...

Prophets and Apostles in Our Midst  - Amy Carr reflects on a God-driven vision of right relations in our shared ...

The Season of Creation is an optional season of the church year that celebrates God the creator and various domains ...

The Season of Creation is an optional season of the church year that celebrates God the creator and various domains ...

The Season of Creation is an optional season of the church year that celebrates God the creator and various domains ...

Marriage, Family, and the Community of Creation - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the profound mutuality between male and female in creation. Care ...

Earth, Sky, and Water - Tom Mundahl reflects on "the commons" we all share. Care for Creation Commentary on the Common ...

Restoring Right Relationship - Nick Utphall reflects on breaking the perpetual cycle of scapegoats and violence. Care for Creation Commentary on the ...

The Whole of Inter-Related Creation - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the meals of Jesus overcoming our "reconciliation deficit disorder." Care ...

Where Most of Us Stand - Nick Utphall reflects on finding our place in the struggle to care for the world's family ...

Faithfulness Will Spring Up from the Ground - Tom Mundahl reflects on God's shalom trumping "royal theologies." Care for Creation Commentary ...

Who Will Shepherd the Shepherdless? - Dennis Ormseth reflects on a way of life where vices have been transformed into economic ...

“Gather the pieces that are left over and let nothing be wasted”—reverential economy of our use of God’s grace. - ...

Bread That Gives Life to the World - Tom Mundahl reflects on the reverential economy of God's grace. Care for ...

The Bread of Christ Is Life, and All of Life Is Communion. - Tom Mundahl reflects on the divine energy ...

“The Choice Before Us is Stark.” -  Dennis Ormseth Care for Creation Commentary on the Common Lectionary  Readings for Sunday ...

Heaven-Sent Bread -  Amy Carr reflects on how the bread of life moves us more fully into an appreciation of ...

Shepherds and Children - Tom Mundahl reflects on restoring a healing relationship with the natural world. Care for Creation Commentary ...

On Star Trek and Saving the Planet: Messianic Miracles in a New Key - Amy Carr reflects on living toward ...

Jesus as Suffering Servant - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the exemplar for our relationship with all of Earth community. Care for ...

Part 3: "Francis: Man of Wealth" - Paul Santmire honors St. Francis of Assisi with a 3-Sunday commentary series. Care for ...

Part 2: "Francis: Child of God" - Paul Santmire honors St. Francis with a 3-Sunday commentary series. Care for Creation Commentary ...

Impossible for Humans but Possible by God's Grace - Dennis Ormseth reflects on Jesus calling people to relinquish wealth for others ...

Part 1: "Francis: Prophet of God." - Paul Santmire honors St. Francis of Assisi with a 3-Sunday commentary series. Care ...

To Stand Beholding - Tom Mundahl reflects on an alternative to our cravings and their resulting garbage. Care for Creation ...

Did God not make creation for the common good?  - Tom Mundahl reflects on threats to community well-being.    Care for Creation ...

Reaching to the Heart of Faith - Tom Mundahl reflects on the church's response to climate change. Care for Creation Commentary on ...

The Hospitality of the World - Tom Mundahl reflects on membership in contrast to individualism. Care for Creation Commentary on the ...