Lectionary Readings for June 22, 2025
Two Paths for the Summer
Lectionary Readings for June 22, 2025
Two Paths for the Summer
This summer, we’re walking two parallel paths, both grounded in Scripture, both open to the Spirit’s movement:
The Gospel According to the Servants – a summer series we’re doing at Sandy Hook UMC, exploring overlooked and often unnamed servants in Scripture. This path includes our usual daily posts (Monday–Friday), each with Scripture, insights, and spiritual practices.
The Revised Common Lectionary (RCL) – our traditional rhythm through the liturgical calendar. Each week, you’ll find one reflective article that weaves together all the Sunday texts into a single meditation.
Below you’ll find resources and reading charts for both paths.
Whether you follow one or both, may these words meet you where you are and move you toward healing, humility, and hope.
The Gospel According to the Servants
Week 2: The Parable of the Wheat & Weeds - Matthew 13:24–30
Every week this summer, we’re looking again at stories we thought we knew—this time from the edges. From the perspective of the servants, the overlooked, the quiet hands in the background.
This week, we find ourselves in a field.
The wheat is growing—but so are the weeds. And the servants, alarmed, want to act. “Should we pull them up?” they ask. It’s a reasonable impulse. A desire to fix, to purify, to protect what’s good.
But the master’s answer is surprising:
Let them grow together.
There’s wisdom in the waiting. A grace that refuses to root out too soon. A deeper trust that the harvest will come—and justice with it.
This week, we ask:
What does it mean to be a servant in the tension?
How do we live with mess without becoming numb—or cruel?
What does it look like to resist the impulse to fix everything now?
You’ll find five daily reflections below, walking slowly through this story and listening for the wisdom of Jesus, the servant-King.
Monday, June 16, 2025
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Thursday, June 19, 2025
Friday, June 20, 2025 - Intersections
Revised Common Lectionary – Proper 7 (Year C)
When You’re at the End of Yourself
1 Kings 19:1-15a, Psalm 42 & 43, Isaiah 65:1-9, Psalm 22:19-28, Galatians 3:23-29, Luke 8:26-39
This week’s lectionary readings take us into the wilderness, spiritually, emotionally, even physically.
Elijah runs for his life and begs God to let him die.
A man possessed by a legion of demons lives in chains, exiled from community.
A psalmist cries out in thirst and disorientation.
And yet in every story, there is a moment where mercy bends low.
A whisper in the cave.
A touch across the sea.
A God who keeps calling out, “Here I am.”
This week’s lectionary reflection gathers those threads and speaks to the weary, the undone, the ones who wonder if they’re too far gone. It’s not a how-to. It’s a reminder:
God meets us at the end of ourselves.
And that’s often where the real healing begins.
