Bishop Mike's Podcast

08.18.2019 - Proper 15, Pentecost 10C, Lectionary 20C

Read more on Bishop Mike's blog. Isaiah 5:1-7 – I will sing to my lover about his vineyard: It produced wild grapes. Therefore I will make it a wasteland. OR Jeremiah 23:23-29 Is not my word like fire, says the Lord, and like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces? Psalm 80:1-2, 8-19 – Shepherd of Israel: You planted a vineyard, then tore down its walls. Support us again, and we will not turn from you. OR Psalm 82 – Give justice to the weak and the orphan; maintain the right of the lowly a...

08.11.2019 - Proper 14C, Pentecost 9C, Lectionary 19C

Read more on Bishop Mike's blog.   Isaiah 1:1, 10-20 – Yahweh condemns Sodom and Gomorrah’s sins: injustice and oppression to the orphan and widow.
 OR Genesis 15:1-6 – The word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: “Look toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them. So shall your descendants be.” And he believed the Lord; and the Lord reckoned it to him as righteousness. Psalm 50:1-8, 22-23 – The Lord calls to the heavens above and to the earth, that he may ju...

5.30.2019 or 6.2.2019 - Ascension

05.26.2019 - Easter 6C

05.19.19 - Easter 5C

05.05.2019 - Easter 4C

05.05.2019 - Easter 3C

4.21.2019 - Easter 2C

04.21.2019 - Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Vigil

04.14.2019 - Palm/Passion Sunday

04.07.2019 - Lent 5C

Isaiah 43:16-21 – Rivers in the desert: do not remember the former things. I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. Psalm 126 – When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream. Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy. Restore our fortunes, O Lord, like the watercourses in the Negeb. May those who sow in tears reap with shouts of joy. ...

03.31.2019 - Lent 4C

Joshua 5:9-12 — After the Israelites cross the Jordan, the disgrace of Egypt is over, the manna stops and the people eat the bounty of the land. Psalm 32 — I said, ‘I will confess my transgressions to the Lord’, and you forgave the guilt of my sin. 2 Corinthians 5:16-21 – We once saw Christ from a human standpoint, but no longer. If anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation. God reconciled us to himself through Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation. In Christ, God wa...

03.24.2019 - Lent 3C

Isaiah 55:1-9 – Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you that have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Seek the Lord while he may be found. Return to the Lord… for he will abundantly pardon. (This is also the OT reading for Pentecost 9A.) Psalm 63:1-8 – O God, you are my God, I seek you, my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water… In the shadow of your wings I sing for j...

03.17.2019 - Lent 2C

Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18 – Abram believed God and it was reckoned to him as righteousness. Righteousness by faith. Psalm 27 – The Lord is my light and my salvation. He will hide me in his tent and set me upon a high rock. Philippians 3:17 – 4:1 – I press on toward the goal: the heavenly call of God in Christ. Enemies of the cross: their god is the belly. Their end is destruction. Luke 13:31-35 – Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how I have longed to gather you as a mother hen gathers her young under...

03.10.2019 - Lent 1C

03.06.2019 Ash Wednesday

03.03.2019 Transfiguration

02.24.2019 Epiphany 7C

02.17.2019 Epiphany 6C

02.10.2019 Epiphany 5C

02.03.2019 Epiphany 4C

01.27.2019 Epiphany 3C

01.20.2019 Epiphany 2C

01.13.2019 Baptism of Christ

01.06.2019 Epiphany

12.30.2018 Christmas 1C

12.23.2018 - Advent 4C

12.16.2018 Advent 3C

12.09.2018 Advent 2C

12.02.2018 Advent 1C

11.25.2018 Christ the King Sunday

11.18.2018 is Pentecost 28B

11.11.2018 is Pentecost 27B

11.04.2018 is All Saints Sunday

10.28.2018 is Reformation Sunday

10.21.2018 is Pentecost 22B, Proper 24B

10.14.2018 is Pentecost 21B, Proper 23B

10.07.2018 is Pentecost 20B Proper 22B

September 30, 2018 is Pentecost 19B Proper 21B

9.16.2018 is Pentecost 17B Proper 19B

Lectionary texts for September 16, 2018 discussed by Bishop Mike Rinehart of the Gulf Coast Synod, ELCA 

September 2 is Pentecost 15B Proper 17B

Bishop Mike Rinehart of of the Gulf Coast Synod, ELCA discusses the lectionary texts for September 2, 2018

9.09.2018 is Pentecost 16B Proper 18B

Bishop Mike Rinehart on the lectionary texts for Pentecost 16B / Proper 18B

6.24.2018 is Pentecost 5B, 2 Corinthians 8

[[Rebroadcast]] While Bishop Mike is working on a new project, we are rebroadcasting the Lectionary Year B podcasts from a previous cycle.  For more resources about 2 Corinthians and preaching these texts in series, visit bishopmike.com

6.17.2018 is Pentecost 4B, 2 Corinthians 6

[[Rebroadcast]] While Bishop Mike is working on a new project, we are rebroadcasting the Lectionary Year B podcasts from a previous cycle.  For more resources about 2 Corinthians and preaching these texts in series, visit bishopmike.com

6.10.2018 is Pentecost 3B

[[Rebroadcast]] While Bishop Mike is working on a new project, we are rebroadcasting the Lectionary Year B podcasts from a previous cycle.  For more resources about 2 Corinthians and preaching these texts in series, visit bishopmike.com

6.3.2018 Is Pentecost 2B, 2 Corinthians 4

[[Rebroadcast]] While Bishop Mike is working on a new project, we are rebroadcasting the Lectionary Year B podcasts from a previous cycle.  For more resources about 2 Corinthians and preaching these texts in series, visit bishopmike.com

5.27.2018 is Trinity Sunday

5.20.2018 is Pencost Sunday B

Bishop Mike Rinehart talks about preaching the lectionary texts for Pentecost Sunday

5.13.2018 is Ascension B

Lutheran Bishop Mike Rinehart of the Gulf Coast Synod talks about the lectionary texts for preaching on Ascension Sunday. 

5.6.2018 is Easter 6B

A weekly podcast talking about preaching the lectionary texts.