Lectionary for Easter Day Christ is risen: Christ is risen indeed! Christ died for our sins, was buried and raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures; and he appeared to the believers. 1 Corinthians 15:3-5 Reading. 1 Corinthians 15:1-11. Easter is a very joyous season for we remember the amazing events surroundingContinue reading “Lectionary for Easter Day”
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Lectionary for Lent 6
Lectionary for Lent 6 Open the gates of righteousness that I may enter through them and give thanks to the Lord. Psalm 118:19 Collect. Let us pray: Jesus, you enter the holy city, approaching your passion and death; today the crowd acclaims you. May we sing your praises every day, for you are the servantContinue reading “Lectionary for Lent 6”
Sermon Notes John 12:31
John 12v31 Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out. When we worked in UK- still fighting 2nd WW. The US still trying to win the West. But it was a romantic view because they knew how the story ended. As we approach Easter I wonderContinue reading “Sermon Notes John 12:31”
Lectionary for Lent 5
Lectionary for Sunday Lent 5 Jesus says: ‘Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there will my servant be also.’ John 12:26 Reading. Psalm 51:1-12. This is a beautiful and much loved psalm for, on the one hand it reminds us most forcefully of our failures; at the same time it assuresContinue reading “Lectionary for Lent 5”
Lectionary for Lent 4
Lectionary for Lent 4 By grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God. Ephesians 2:8 Reading. Ephesians 2:1-10. Paul’s argument in this passage is really quite straight forward!!! What we were then (before Jesus came) is not what we are now. Similarly what weContinue reading “Lectionary for Lent 4”
Lectionary for Lent 3
Lectionary Reading for 3 Sunday in Lent The message of the cross is madness to those on the way to destruction, but to us who are on the way to salvation it is the power of God. 1 Corinthians 1:18 Reading. 1 Corinthians 1:18-25 One of the phrases that has entered our vocabulary is “fakeContinue reading “Lectionary for Lent 3”
Lectionary for Sunday Lent 2
Lectionary Readings 2nd Sunday in Lent Jesus began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected, and killed, and after three days rise again. Mark 8:31 (These readings for the second Sunday in Lent remind us that God continually acts in ways that human wisdom would declare toContinue reading “Lectionary for Sunday Lent 2”
Lectionary 1st Sunday in Lent
1st Sunday in Lent God says, Do not dwell on past events, or brood over days gone by. For I am about to do a new thing: this moment it will unfold. Do you not see it? Isaiah 43:18 Reading. Isaiah 43:18-25. The prophet announces that the Lord is in action. The “new thing” thatContinue reading “Lectionary 1st Sunday in Lent”
Epiphany Part 2
Lectionary Readings. Epiphany 6 Part 2 “For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life.” Ephesians 2:10 (NRSV) Reading. 1 Corinthians 9:24-27. When we think of all that Paul has emphasized about Christ being the power that allows himContinue reading “Epiphany Part 2”
Lectionary for Epiphany 6
Lectionary Epiphany 6 I will give you high praise, O Lord, for you have drawn me up; you have turned my lament into dancing so that I may joyfully praise you and not be silent. Psalm 30:1, 11, 12 Reading. 2 Kings 5:1-14. This is a story with many characters but the first character weContinue reading “Lectionary for Epiphany 6”
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