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Readings for the Week ~ June 30
Psalm 112 • Deut 15:7-11 • 2 Cor 8:1-15 • Mark 5:22-43
“May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my rock and my redeemer.” – Psalm 19:14
Readings for the Week ~ June 24
Psalm 107 • Job 38:1-18 • 2 Corinthians 5:14-21 • Mark 4:35-41; 5:1-20
Our lives are lived in the Kingdom of God. God’s rule and reign is loosed upon the earth and my prayer is that we would all have eyes to see where God is at work both within us as individuals and as a congregation but also beyond. We would do well to make Thomas Merton’s words our own:
“We are exiles in the far end of solitude, living as listeners,
With hearts attending to the skies we cannot understand:
Waiting upon the first far drums of Christ the Conqueror,
Planted like sentinels upon the world’s frontier.”
Readings for the Week ~ June 16
Psalm 92 • Ezekiel 31:1-14 • 2 Corinthians 5:1-10 • Mark 4:26-34
This week’s Gospel reading includes two of Jesus’ many parables. It’s useful to note that he begins his parable with these words of introduction, “This is what the Kingdom of God is like.” Through parables Jesus seeks to give us a picture of God’s Kingdom. These parables are indirect, strange and function much like poetry. They are works of art revealing something at an angle, indirectly, carefully. Emily Dickinson could very well be referring to the parables of Jesus when she wrote:
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant — Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth’s superb surpriseAs Lightening to the Children Eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind —
Readings for the Week ~ June 9
Ps 130 • I Sam 8:4-20 • Genesis 3:8-15 • II Cor 4:13-5:1 • Mark 3:20-35
“O God of peace, who has taught us that in returning and rest we shall be saved, in quietness and in confidences shall be our strength: By the might of your Spirit lift us, we pray, to your presence, where we may be still and know that you are God; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.”
Readings for the Week ~ June 2
Psalm 29 • Isaiah 6:1-8 • Romans 8:12-17 • John 3:1-17
This week we celebrate the Trinity. This is one of the deepest mysteries of the Christian faith. As you read the Scriptures for this week I encourage you to search for glimpses of the Trinity in each one.
It must be acknowledged that the theology about the Trinity wasn’t fully expressed until after Scripture was written. The doctrine of the Trinity is not some esoteric or merely philosophical theology. The doctrine of the Trinity came to expression as Christians attempted to put into words their experience of God in Scripture, the sacraments and everyday life. The Trinity explains best both what Scripture teaches and the earliest Christians experienced.
The Trinity can be described but not explained. The interrelationship of God the Father, Son and Spirit is beyond our comprehension but not our experience.
May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. – 2 Cor 13:14
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