Year C Exodus 3:1-15 Psalm 63:1-8 1 Corinthians 10:1-13 Luke 13:1-9 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… The story of Moses and the Burning Bush… fascinated me as a child… it was one of the Bible stories we came back to again and again in Hebrew and Sunday School… the idea that something...
Year C Genesis 15:1-12,17-18 Psalm 27 Philippians 3:17-4:1 Luke 13:31-35 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… Things seem tenuous. They seemed tenuous to Abram too… it had been years since God promised to make of him a great nation… and he continued childless… and he wondered… would the heir of his house be...
Year C Deuteronomy 26:1-11 Psalm 91:1-2, 9-16 Romans 10:8b-13 Luke 4:1-13 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… Our reading from Deuteronomy today… is more than just a story… it’s a liturgy of thanksgiving… it establishes the ritual remembrance of God’s liberating act… it instructs God’s people… to remember their status as aliens… and...
Year C Joel 2:1-2,12-17 Psalm 103:8-14 2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10 Matthew 6:1-6,16-21 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… We are all going to die… it’s not really… ever… a pleasant fact… but it is a fact of life… that the other end of birth… is death… and the vast majority of us humans… do...
My Lord,My sins are likeThe highest mountain;My good deedsAre very few,They’re like a small pebble.I turn to You,My heart full of shame,My eyes full of tears.Bestow YourForgiveness and MercyUpon me.~ from Supplication by Sami Yusuf Lent assaults our mistaken sense of ourselves. It challenges the notion that we’re capable and self-sufficient; that we can...