Visual Resources for the Lectionaries

This post offers visual resources for the Revised Common Lectionary and the Narrative Lectionary for May 31, 2026. Use this chart for quick links to the texts and the resource pages on cartoonistbible.com.

Holy Trinity

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Revised Common Lectionary Resources

Gospel Reading – Matthew 28:16-20

This image is from page 21 in A Cartoonist’s Guide to Matthew

Food for Thought

It is Trinity Sunday. Preachers respond in many different ways to this occasion. Some shy away because the Trinity is too complicated and mysterious to speak about in a short sermon. Some attempt to explain the Trinity and usually fall into some form of modalism by using analogies like an apple, a clover leaf, or the properties of water.

If you would rather not address the topic of Trinity directly, then it might be a good opportunity to speak to the graduates in your congregation, or focus on the launch of the summer season. You could also focus on the creation stories of Genesis and Psalm 8. No one will fault you.

If you want to tackle the Trinity, remember this: any time humans talk about the nature of God…it is inherently wrong. How can a finite creature understand, let alone explain, the infinite creator? We simply can’t. We must maintain a humble balance between apophatic and kataphatic theology.

Apophatic means there is nothing we can say about God that is accurate, so we should say nothing.

Kataphatic means there is something we can say about God and we should talk about God, even if what we say isn’t completely accurate.

My theologizing about the Trinity tries to find the balance between these two ways of thinking. Click HERE to jump to the section of my Trinity video where I discuss this.

Narrative Lectionary

Ruth 1:1-22

Food for Thought

The Narrative Lectionary begins a summer series in Ruth and Esther. Ruth is a beautiful story of faithfulness in the midst of chaos. The story of Ruth takes place during the period of Israel’s history when the tribes ruled themselves and it did not go well. You can find the stories in the Book of Judges. Things spiral from bad to worse as the tribes plunge deeper and deeper into idolatry and unfaithfulness to God and the Laws of Moses.

Ruth offers a beautiful contrast to these tales of terror. An Israelite woman named Naomi and her family have to flee the country due to famine. They find themselves among Gentiles and the boys marry gentile women. All the men die, leaving Naomi a widow. When she decides to return home, her gentile daughter-in-law, Ruth, pledges to stay with her until the day she dies.

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