Tag: Psalm Passage
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Seventh Sunday After Easter, Year B 2023 – 24: Psalm Passage – Preacher & Seeker take time to think with the psalmist
Preacher: “Happy are those who do not follow the advice of the wicked, or take the path that sinners tread, or sit in the seat of scoffers; . . . “ Seeker: “ . . . but their delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law they meditate day and night.”…
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Ascension of the Lord, Year B 2023 – 24: Substituted Acts , Psalm, Gospel Passages; Looking up to see into the future with hope and faith
“In the first book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus did and taught from the beginning until the day when he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.” (Acts 1:1 – 2) I like the idea of the gospel of Luke being…
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Sixth Sunday After Easter, Year B 2023 – 24: Psalm Passage – Jesus talking to us, the contemporary believers, through the psalmist
Seeker: “O sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done marvelous things. His right hand and his holy arm have gotten him victory.” I have a feeling though, the victory was one that the psalmist wanted. This seems to be a pattern of the psalmist. Praising the Lord for victories that the…
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Fifth Sunday After Easter, Year B 2023 – 24: Psalm Passage – Preacher & Seeker consider the psalmist’s beliefs in his Lord God, and the serenity it brings
Preacher: One may not be able to tell from where the RCL picks up this psalm, but the psalmist is frightened and has asked the Divine from protection. But he is also certain that protection will come, and so he feels emboldened to praise his God. “From you comes my praise in the great congregation;…
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Fourth Sunday After Easter, Year B 2023 – 24: Psalm Passage – Exercising faith & belief: Preacher & Seeker look at Psalm 32 again
Preacher: “The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want.” I am reminded, and it is no coincidence knowing the RCL, of the gospel passage for this week – that Jesus said He was a good shepherd, the Good Shepherd, laying down His life. And was able through the Divine to pick His life back…
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Third Sunday After Easter, Year B 2023 – 24: Psalm Passage – Leaning in on the relationship with the Divine: Preacher & Seeker take up the psalmist’s plea
Preacher: “Answer me when I call, O God of my right! You gave me room when I was in distress. Be gracious to me, and hear my prayer.” I am not sure if this is a plea or a demand from the psalmist. I am hoping, for the psalmist’s sake it is a plea, considering…
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Second Sunday After Easter, Year B 2023: Epilogue with promised peace – Psalm Passage
Preacher: “How very good and pleasant it is when kindred live together in unity!” I am thinking about the early church in association with this verse, Seeker. While I (and others) were not sure how those early believers would survive when being financially interdependent on one another, and a foreseeable end to incoming revenue –…
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Concluding Holy Week – Easter, Year B 2023: The Wait is Over!
“On this mountain the LORD of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wines, of rich food filled with marrow, of well-aged wines strained clear.” (Isaiah 25:6) On this day the Lord of Hosts will announce liberty for the imprisoned, sight for the blind, and healing for…
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Holy Week – Wednesday, Year B 2023: Considering others & other things on the path
“Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the sake of the…
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Holy Week – Tuesday, Year B 2023: Considering types of wisdom on the path
“For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.” Where is the one who is wise? Where…
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