Category: Sundays After Pentecost 2024
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Sundays After Pentecost, Year B 2023 – 24: Psalm Passage – Journeying with the family & friends: A brief Preacher & Seeker conversation
Preacher: “How very good and pleasant it is when kindred live together in unity!” Never let it be said, Seeker, that the framers of the Revised Common Lectionary did not have a sense of irony! For the description of King Saul discovering the little runt who had been David and killed Goliath is now a…
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Sundays After Pentecost, Year B 2023 – 24: Gospel Passage – Journeying with the Divine in “our little boat”
“On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.” (Mark 4:35) “That day” in the gospel of Mark was a day when Jesus taught both the crowd and his disciples through parables. The disciples were stumped as to what the parables meant, so Jesus explained…
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Sundays After Pentecost, Year B 2023 – 24: Epistle Passage – How Paul journeys with the Divine
“As we work together with him, we urge you also not to accept the grace of God in vain. For he says, “At an acceptable time I have listened to you, and on a day of salvation I have helped you.” See, now is the acceptable time; see, now is the day of salvation!” (II…
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Sundays After Pentecost, Year B 2023 – 24: Old Testament Passage – Journeying with the Divine
“On David’s return from killing the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul, with the head of the Philistine in his hand. Saul said to him, “Whose son are you, young man?” And David answered, “I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.” (I Samuel 17:57 – 58) This is not…
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Sundays After Pentecost, Year B 2023 – 24: Psalm Passage – The Lord God has healing & helping powers; Preacher and Seeker ponder the Grace & Blessing of the Divine
Preacher: “The LORD answer you in the day of trouble! The name of the God of Jacob protect you!” I have to confess, I think the psalmist should have have started his petition, intersession, or invocation with the word “May”. Or, perhaps, with a question as if wondering if the the Divine will answer and…
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Sundays After Pentecost, Year B 2023 – 24: Gospel Passage – The Kingdom of the Lord God has room
“He also said, “The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how. The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.…
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Sundays After Pentecost, Year B 2023 – 24: Epistle Passage – Making room for confidence and hope in the Lord God
“So we are always confident; even though we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord — for we walk by faith, not by sight. Yes, we do have confidence, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.” (II Corinthians…
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Sundays After Pentecost, Year B 2023 – 24: Old Testament Passage – Making Room for the Lord God
“Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house in Gibeah of Saul. Samuel did not see Saul again until the day of his death, but Samuel grieved over Saul. And the LORD was sorry that he had made Saul king over Israel.” (I Samuel 15: 34 – 35) King Saul &…
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Sundays After Pentecost, Year B 2023 – 24: Psalm Passage – Praising the intention of the Divine; Preacher & Seeker read the psalmist
Seeker: “I give you thanks, O LORD, with my whole heart; before the gods I sing your praise; “ Preacher: “I bow down toward your holy temple and give thanks to your name for your steadfast love and your faithfulness; for you have exalted your name and your word above everything.” This is an interesting…
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Sundays After Pentecost, Year B 2023 – 24: Gospel Passage – Waiting for the best time to intervene
“. . . and the crowd came together again, so that they could not even eat.” (Mark 3:20) The gospel of Mark paints a picture of the “world” gone mad! Or at least those around Jesus. Extraordinary claims and actions; pulling others into the vortex that Jesus cast himself in; and such tumult that daily…
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