By Dan McClain

• Christ's Mind in Us by Dan McClain (1/20/2017)
  In the Episcopal Church, the collect for the third Sunday after Epiphany focuses our attention on the task of preaching the Gospel. “Give us grace, O Lord, to answer readily the call of our Savior Jesus Christ and proclaim to all people the Good News of his salvation, that we and the whole world may perceive the glory of his marvelous works; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.” As Christians, we are called to preach the good news of Jesus Christ. And in so doing, we pray that we and the world will see God’s glory. This is a hopeful prayer, and we all need hope. The readings appointed for this Sunday are full of hope in God’s work through us. Isaiah (9:1–4) prophecies that Galilee will be the site in which God’s glory becomes...
• God of the Living by Dan McClain (11/2/2016)
  Twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time Haggai 1:15b-2:9 2 Thessalonians 2:1-5, 13-17 Luke 20:27-38 Our lectionary readings for this week take us to the heart of our anxiety for control, power, and security. From Haggai’s assurances that the glory of Israel was never in the accomplishments of her rulers but in the LORD and his inscrutable ways, to Paul’s comforting words to the people of Thessalonica, to Jesus’s re-orientation of the Sadducees' question about marriage in the resurrection—these passages simultaneously challenge and assure the Christian, especially the Christ...