15TH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST Lessons & Meditation
15TH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST 09-13-2020 FIRST READING: Genesis 50:15-21 Do you know the story of Joseph – what his brothers did to him… all the challenges and difficulties he […]
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14TH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST Lessons & Meditation
14TH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST 09-06-2020 FIRST READING: Ezekiel 33:7-11 It was a time both of international upheaval and of God’s hard judgment upon the people of the covenant. The Assyrian […]
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13TH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
08-30-2020 FIRST READING: Jeremiah 15:15-21 The Book of Jeremiah – the longest book in the Bible – contains powerful public sermons and symbolic public actions by the prophet as he […]
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12TH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST Lessons & Prayer
FIRST READING: Isaiah 51:1-6 Once again this summer, we are in the portion of the Book of Isaiah that seeks to offer promise and hope. For Biblical scholars who divide […]
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11TH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST Lessons & Meditation
FIRST READING: Isaiah 56:1, 6-8 Most Biblical scholars divide the Book of Isaiah into either two or three major divisions. The first part, Chapters 1-39, is often called “The Book […]
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10TH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST Lessons & Meditation
10TH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST 08-09-2020 FIRST READING: 1 Kings 19:9-18 Why would the prophet Elijah be hiding in a cave, trembling in fear? He has already experienced the power […]
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9TH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST Lessons & Meditations
FIRST READING: Isaiah 55:1-5 We were also in Isaiah Chapter 55 three Sundays ago… then we read verses 10-13. We might remember that the second part of the Book of […]
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Eighth Sunday After Pentecost | Lessons & Meditation
FIRST READING: 1 Kings 3:5-12 Every other nation had one – why not Israel? The twelve tribes that had been delivered out of slavery in Egypt to live in Palestine […]
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7TH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST | Lessons & Meditation
7TH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST 07-19-2020 FIRST READING: Isaiah 44:6-8 For a second consecutive week, a lectionary from the second part of the Book of Isaiah, often called “The Book […]