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- Our texts this week are here
- Our prayer this week is from Jan Richardson’s Circle of Grace
- We highly recommend Jerusha Neal’s Overshadowed Preacher
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- How to Eat Together as a Church, a webinar with Rev. Pardue and N4CC
- Jewish Voices for Peace on zionism.
- Our texts this week are here
- Our prayer this week is from Jan Richardson in Circle of Grace, a Book of Blessings for the Seasons
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- Our prayer this week is “For Breaking Bread with Others” from Feminist Prayers for My Daughter by Shannon K. Evans
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- Our texts this week are here
- Our prayer this week is “For A Faith Community” from Feminist Prayers for My Daughter by Shannon K. Evans
- A quick review of the historical context for eunuchs in the ancient world: https://www.britannica.com/topic/eunuch
- Two ancient references worth considering that highlight the non-binary reality of eunuchs: The first one is from St. Augustine who describes castrated eunuchs as “neither changed into a woman nor allowed to remain a man” (City of God 7.24). The other comes from the Tosefta (a Jewish commentary on the Mishnah), which applies both male and female laws to the eunuchs.
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Our prayer this week is “We Are Baffled” from Awed To Heaven, Rooted in Earth by Walter Breuggemann
N. T. Wright quote from Surprised By Hope: “Once we get the resurrection straight, we can and must get mission straight. […] People who believe in the resurrection, in God making a whole new world in which everything will be set right at last, are unstoppably motivated to work for that new world in the present” (Surprised by Hope 193, 214). […] And if we believe it and pray, as he taught us, for God’s kingdom to come on earth as it is in heaven, there is no way we can rest with major injustice in the world. […] The final putting to rights of everything does indeed wait for the last day. We must therefore avoid the arrogance or triumphalism of… imagining that we can build the kingdom by our own efforts without the need for a further divine act of new creation. But we must agree… that doing justice in the world is part of the Christian task” (Surprised by Hope 213, 215, 216). Indeed, the prophet Micah reminds us: “He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God” (Micah 6:8, NIV).
Here’s a review from Tim Wildsmith (The Bible Review Blog) of the GBA bible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_6TVa7scKM
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Our texts this week are here
Our prayer this week is from Liturgies For Hope by Audrey Elledge and Elizabeth Moore – “A Liturgy For Those Embracing the Mystery of Faith”
Disability Theology: My Body is Not A Prayer Request, by Amy Kenny
N. T. Wright quote from Surprised By Hope: “Once we get the resurrection straight, we can and must get mission straight. […] People who believe in the resurrection, in God making a whole new world in which everything will be set right at last, are unstoppably motivated to work for that new world in the present” (Surprised by Hope 193, 214). […] And if we believe it and pray, as he taught us, for God’s kingdom to come on earth as it is in heaven, there is no way we can rest with major injustice in the world. […] The final putting to rights of everything does indeed wait for the last day. We must therefore avoid the arrogance or triumphalism of… imagining that we can build the kingdom by our own efforts without the need for a further divine act of new creation. But we must agree… that doing justice in the world is part of the Christian task” (Surprised by Hope 213, 215, 216). Indeed, the prophet Micah reminds us: “He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God” (Micah 6:8, NIV).
Padraig O'Tuama reads a poem from Illia Kaminsky on the Poetry Unbound podcast: “We Lived Happily During The War”
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Listen to the text: YouVersioin Bible App, Dwell Bible
Explore Alabaster Bibles
Our prayer this week: Easter Sunday: While It Was Still Dark, by Jan Richardson
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Our prayer this week: “Blessing of Palms” by Jan Richardson
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Our prayer this week: Awed To Heaven Rooted In Earth, Walter Brueggemann– “We Try As Best We Can To Live By Bread Alone”
Also mentioned: “Caminante no hay camino” by Antonio Machado
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- Our texts this week are here
- Our prayer this week: A Liturgy for Giving Thanks from Liturgies for Hope: Sixty Prayers for the Highs, the Lows, and Everything in Between
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Our prayer this week: “For This Lovely Day” from The Lives We Actually Have
Alicia’s Ash Wednesday playlist and Lent playlist
A prayer of unknowing by Thomas Merton
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Two audio notes this week: There's a silent gap for several seconds at minute 20, but hang tight! It comes right back!
Megan's audio during the prayer goes in and out. You can read the full text here: From The Lives We Actually Have, by Kate Bowler and Jessica Richie
"For when this pain doesn't make sense"
God, I'm fumbling around for answers, reasons, meaning.
I can't find any purpose in this pain.
Why me?
Why them?
Why now?
I don't know when this is going to get better.
Or if I will ever feel relief.
God, make this pain matter... at least to you.
See me in my fragility.
Give me a reminder of your presence.
Reach for me,
for I am too weary to reach for you.
Blessed are we who need to be reminded
that there are some things we can fix ... and some things we can't.
Blessed are we who can say:
My life isn't always getting better.
Right in the midst of the pain and fear and uncertainty, may we hunt for beauty and meaning and truth... together.
Not to erase the pain or solve the pain (though surely that would be nice),
but to remind us that beauty and sorrow coexist.
And that doesn't mean we're broken or have been forgotten.
God is here, and we are never-were never and will never be-alone.
In our hope. In our disappointment. In our joy. In our pain.
God, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Spirit, have mercy. Amen.
Our texts this week are here
Our prayer this week is from The Lives We Actually Have
Alicia’s Ash Wednesday playlist and Lent playlist
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Our texts this week are here
Our prayer this week is from The Lives We Actually Have
Alicia’s Ash Wednesday playlist and Lent playlist
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- Our prayer this week:
- “A Travel Blessing” fromCommon Prayer: Pocket Edition
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“Epiphany Prayer” from Thin Places Everywhere: 12 Days of Christmas with Celtic Christianity.
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- Epiphany episode from Year C
- Alicia’s prayer for peace
- Kelly Latimore Icons
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- Our texts this week are here
- Our prayer this week: “There is a time to be born and it is now” – Awed To Heaven, Rooted In Earth by Walter Brueggemann
- “Christmas is for the brokenhearted.” - Chuck Summers
- “Every Valley (It’s Hard To Wait)” by Rain for Roots
- “How To Keep TIme” - podcast from The Atlantic
- Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, Oliver Burkeman
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- Our texts this week are here
- Our prayer this week: “A Liturgy For Those Waiting For A Dream To Come True” - Liturgies For Hope
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- “Light the candle anyway.” – Sarah Bessey
- “God didn’t show me the whole path, God gave me a flashlight, to see one step ahead of me.” – Sister Helen Prejean
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- Our texts this week are here
- Our prayer this week: “Blessing to Summon Rejoicing” by Jan Richardson from Circle of Grace
- “In Death Valley, A Rare Lake Comes Alive” New York Times
- Inciting Joy, by Ross Gay
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Our texts this week are here
Our prayer this week: “For the Interim TIme” -To Bless the Space Between Us by John O’Donohue …. “For Those Who Bear Witness” - The Lives We Actually Have by Kate Bowler and Jessica Richie
“Jesus is what God has to say” - Brian Zahnd, Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God
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Alicia’s advent playlist and Matt’s EP
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- Our texts this week are here
- Our prayer this week: “Blessing When the World is Ending,”Jan Richardson from Circle of Grace
- Alicia’s Advent playlist and Matt’s Advent EP
- Alicia mentioned Kintsugi pottery. Learn more about the beauty in the art of repair.
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- Our texts this week are here
- Our prayer this week: Feminist Prayers For My Daughter “For a Faith Community”
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- We’ll be back for the first week of Advent– reading through the Psalms!
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Our texts this week are here
Our prayer this week is from The Lives We Actually Have – “Collective Grief” (p 74-75)
Alicia mentions Dr. Mekel Harris’s Instagram account. Check out her full website here.
Megan mentions Jan Richardson’s book, The Cure for Sorrow
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Our prayer this week: “Liturgy for Wresting with God” from Liturgies for Hope
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- Our texts this week are here (Megan is reading from the Common English Bible)
- Our prayer this week: “A Liturgy For Those Who Worship The Wrong Thing” from Liturgies for Hope
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- Andrew Root, Churches and the Crisis of Decline
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Exodus commentaries: OT For Everyone by John Goldingay, NBBC Commentary by H. Junia Pokrifka
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As we move from Pentecost to Ordinary time, we celebrate the beauty in the ordinary and take extra time for rest and play. We'll be taking a break from regular podcasting, but will be back in your feeds soon! Meanwhile, there are amazing resources continually available every week on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music.
Our quote comes from An Altar in the World, by Barbara Brown Taylor
Our prayer this week is "For an Ordinary Day" from The Lives We Actually Have (Bowler & Richie)
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As we move from Pentecost to Ordinary time, we celebrate the beauty in the ordinary and take extra time for rest and play. We'll be taking a break from regular podcasting, but will be back in your feeds soon! Meanwhile, there are amazing resources continually available every week on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music.
Our quote comes from An Altar in the World, by Barbara Brown Taylor
Our prayer this week is "For an Ordinary Day" from The Lives We Actually Have (Bowler & Richie)
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Pentecost A | Acts 2:1-21
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- Our prayer this week is Blessing that Undoes Us by Jan Richardson
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- Some commentaries assisting in Easter season: Jerusha Matsen Neal on workingpreacher.org and Acts by Willie Jennings (Belief Series), Acts by Beverly Roberts Gaventa (Abingdon NT), Acts For Everyone by N. T. Wright
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Ascension of Our Lord | Acts 1:6-14
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- Our prayer this week is In the Leaving from Circle of Grace
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- Some commentaries assisting in Easter season: Jerusha Matsen Neal on workingpreacher.org and Acts by Willie Jennings (Belief Series), Acts by Beverly Roberts Gaventa (Abingdon NT), Acts For Everyone by N. T. Wright
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Sixth Sunday after Easter | Acts 17:22-31
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- Our prayer this week is “A Liturgy for those Who Worship the Wrong Thing” (from Liturgies for Hope by Elledge & Moore)
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- Some commentaries assisting in Easter season: Jerusha Matsen Neal on workingpreacher.org and Acts by Willie Jennings (Belief Series), Acts by Beverly Roberts Gaventa (Abingdon NT), Acts For Everyone by N. T. Wright
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Fifth Sunday after Easter | Acts 7:55-60
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- Our prayer this week is fromEvery Moment Hoy, “A Liturgy for Grieving a Death due to Violence”
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- Some commentaries assisting in Easter season: Jerusha Matsen Neal on workingpreacher.org, and Acts by Willie Jennings (Belief Series), Acts by Beverly Roberts Gaventa (Abingdon NT), Acts For Everyone by N. T. Wright
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- The Cross & The Lynching Tree, by James Cone.
- From the Equal Justice Initiative: the national memorial for peace and justice dedicated to the legacy of enslaved people in the United States.
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Fourth Sunday after Easter | Acts 2:42-47
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- Our prayer this week is from Blessed Be Our Table by Neil Paynter
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- Some commentaries assisting in Easter season: Jerusha Matsen Neal on workingpreacher.org and Acts by Willie Jennings (Belief Series), Acts by Beverly Roberts Gaventa (Abingdon NT), Acts For Everyone by N. T. Wright
- Barbara Brown Taylor’s sermon from Matthew 14 about Jesus feeding the crowd of 5,000 can be found in her sermon collection The Seeds of Heaven: Sermons on the Gospel of Matthew
- Eating Together as a Church webinar, sponsored by Nazarenes for Creation Care
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Easter 3A | Matthew 28:1-10
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- Our prayer this week is from The Lives We Actually Have by Kate Bowler
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Our texts this week are here
Our prayer this week is from Circle of Grace by Jan Richardson
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SHOW NOTES | Easter Sunday | Matthew 28:1-10
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Our prayer this week is from Circle of Grace by Jan Richardson
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Palm Sunday A | Matthew 21
- Our texts this week are here
- Our prayer this week: “Jesus Weeps” by Malcolm Guite in the collection Word in the Wilderness… While we lament yet another school shooting in the news cycle this week, we remember that Jesus weeps over all of this too.
- There have been several commentators that mention a Roman custom of a show of force– that on the other side of the city Pilate would have been parading in on a war horse accompanied by a squadron or two of Roman soldiers. (see Borg & Crossan, The Last Week, pages 1-30)
- We mentioned @BlackLiturgies and This Here Flesh, by Cole Arthur Riley
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SHOW NOTES: Lent 5A | Psalm 130
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Our prayer this week: For When You Need a Little Hope, The Lives We Actually Have by Jessica Richie and Kate Bowler
We talked about Homeboy Industries and the work of Fr. Gregory Boyle. Megan mentioned his book The Whole Language, and both Megan & Alicia recommend Tattoos on the Heart.
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For more about Brueggemann’s categories for Psalms, check out Spirituality of the Psalms.
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SHOW NOTES: Lent 4A | Psalm 23
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Our prayer this week: “A Liturgy for Those Who Are Too Busy” from Liturgies For Hope, by Audrey Elledge and Elizabeth Moore
For more about Brueggemann’s categories for Psalms, check out Spirituality of the Psalms.
For more about using the psalms in prayer, we suggest Psalms For Praying: An Invitation to Wholeness, by Nan C. Merril
Inciting Joy, by Ross Gay. Alicia cannot recommend this book highly enough! And if you really can’t make time to read it just yet, do yourself a favor and listen to this brief podcast interview (NPR) where he talks about inciting joy while dining with sorrow.
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In this bonus episode, we invite you to tune in to a conversation about a new book from APA publishing: Trenches and Tables by Michael R. Palmer
SHOW NOTES: Lent 3A | Psalm 95
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Our prayer this week: “A Liturgy for the Morning After a Bad Decision” from Liturgies for Hope by Audrey Elledge and Elizabeth Moore
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For more about Brueggemann’s categories for Psalms, check out Spirituality of the Psalms.
To hear more from Megan on Psalm 29 and creation themes, watch her sermon from Duke Chapel in 2021.
SHOW NOTES | Lent 2| Psalm 121
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Our prayer this week is excerpted from the prayer titled “Benediction” from A Rhythm of Prayer by Sarah Bessy
We spoke briefly about pilgrimage during this episode– if you’re curious to learn more, Alicia recommends exploring the blog & podcast from Lacey Clark Ellman at www.asacredjourney.net
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Lent 1A | Psalm 32
- Our texts this week are here
- Our prayer this week: "Travel Blessing" from Common Prayer, Pocket Edition
- Check out Poetry Unbound. Some of Megan’s favorite episodes feature poetry by Ada Limón, Natalie Diaz, and Lucille Clifton. Alicia also recommends the newly published book collecting together 50 poems from the podcast project.
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SHOW NOTES | Epiphany 6A | 1 Corinthians 3:1-9
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Our prayer this week: Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community
For a deep dive on Paul’s image of milk and babes, check out Susan Eastman’s book RecoveringPaul’sMother Tongueand Brittany Wilson’s Unmanly Men: Reconfigurations of Masculinity in Luke-Acts.
For a more indepth look at the powers and principalities, see Campbell’s book The Word Before the Powers, and his commentary on 1 Corinthiansin the Belief series.
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Epiphany 5A | 1 Corinthians 2:1-12(13-16)
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Our prayer this week: “You Are Known in Hiddenness” from Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth by Walter Brueggemann
Read more about housing inequality and red-lining and the racial wealth gap.
For a more indepth look at the powers and principalities, see Campbell’s book The Word Before the Powersand his commentary on 1 Corinthiansin the Belief series.
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Epiphany 4A | 1 Corinthians 1:18-31
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Our prayer this week: A Liturgy for Those Embracing the Mystery of the Faith, from Liturgies for Hope
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Keep on the look out for our 2023 Lent resource-- coming soon!
Epiphany 4A | 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 |
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Our prayer this week: A Liturgy for Those Embracing the Mystery of the Faith, from Liturgies for Hope
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Look out for our seasonal Lent resource, coming soon!
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Our texts this week are here
From The Bible Project, intro to 1 Corinthians
Our prayer this week is“Baptism” by Malcolm Guite
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SHOW NOTES Christmas | Luke 2:1-20
- Our texts this week are here
- Our prayer this week: by Jan Richardson from her book Circle of Grace
- The Gospel in Solentiname, by Ernesto Cardenal
- St. Oscar Romero, I Bring You Great News: A Saviour Has Been Born to You
- Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts
- Music for the season:Alicia’s Advent Playlist and Matt’s Advent EP
- Our in-house Advent devotional guide: Prepare the Way
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SHOW NOTES
Our texts this week are here
Our prayer this week is by Jan Richardson from her book Circle of Grace
Alicia reads from the commentary notes in the Life With God Study Bible (NRSV) published by Renovare, and she highly recommends this bible
“And a Soul Felt Its Worth: a Sermon on an Overlooked Miracle” by Nadia Bolz-Weber
Music for the season:Alicia’s Advent Playlist and Matt’s Advent EP
Our in-house Advent devotional guide: Prepare the Way
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Our texts this week are here
Our prayer this week: “Liturgy for Those Looking For Joy” From Liturgies for Hope by Audrey Elledge and Elizabeth Moore
Lots of quotes today: the difference between a path and a road is from "Native Hill" by Wendell Berry, a quote from "Caminante No Hay Comino" by Antonio Machado, Poetry Unbound with Padraig O’Tuama, "We Lived Happily During the War," by Ilya Kaminsky, Check out Kate Bowler’s work
Music for the season:Alicia’s Advent Playlist and Matt’s Advent EP
Our in-house Advent devotional guide: Prepare the Way
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Our texts this week are here
Our prayer this week is “Blessing the Way” by Jan Richardson from her book Circle of Grace
Music for the season:Alicia’s Advent Playlist and Matt’s Advent EP
Our in-house Advent devotional guide: Prepare the Way
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Our texts this week are here
Our prayer this week is“Blessing When the World is Ending” by Jan Richardson from her book Circle of Grace
Music for the season:Alicia’s Advent Playlist and Matt’s Advent EP
Our in-house Advent devotional guide: Prepare the Way
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Hi everyone! A quick announcement: no new episode this week or next week.
We’re moving into Isaiah for Advent Year A (the texts are here).
Check out our Advent devotional guide, Prepare The Way and Alicia's annual Advent Spotify playlist.
If you enjoy our podcast music, our producer Matt is releasing a special EP for Advent. Starting November 27th, he’ll release one track every Sunday tying into the themes of Advent — Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love. For updates on how to listen, you can follow him on social media — @SonTerreMusic – and https://www.mattgosemusic.com/
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SHOW NOTES:
Our texts this week are here
Our prayer this week is from Jan Richardson, “On The Feast of All Saints”
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Our texts this week are here
Our prayer this week: “A Liturgy Before Giving (II)” from Every Moment Holy (Vol 1) (using this affiliate link helps us with a small commission and is a great way to support the show)
For a deeper dive into the powers and principalities, check out The Word Before the Powers.
Check out the Slow Money Network and CNote for ideas on alternative investing.
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Our texts this week are here
Our prayer this week: “A Prayer for Reconciliation” from Daily Prayer With The Corrymeela Community(using this affiliate link helps us with a small commission and is a great way to support the show)
For practices for attending and describing Scripture texts, check out Anna Carter Florence’s book, Preaching as Testimony.
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Our texts this week are here
Our prayer this week is: "A Prayer for the Tired, Angry Ones" by Laura Jean Thurman in Sarah Bessey's collection A Rhythm of Prayer (using this affiliate link helps us with a small commission and is a great way to support the show– AND Bookshop.org is offering free shipping October 11 & 12, so now is a perfect time to buy some books!)
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Our texts this week are here
Our prayer this week: “A Blessing for a New Beginning” from John O’Donohue’s collection To Bless The Space Between Us (using this affiliate link helps us with a small commission and is a great way to support the show)
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Our texts this week are here.
Our prayer this week is “Yes” from Walter Brueggemann’s collection Awed To Heaven, Rooted In Earth. Browse the rest of our curated book lists through our Bookshop.org affiliate link here: https://bookshop.org/shop/aplainaccount. We’ll get a small commission if you purchase this way, which is a great way to support the show!
A quote to consider: “The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.” - from Middlemarch by George Eliot
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Our texts this week are here.
Our prayer this week is “Yes” from Walter Brueggemann’s collection Awed To Heaven, Rooted In Earth. Browse the rest of our curated book lists through our Bookshop.org affiliate link here: https://bookshop.org/shop/aplainaccount. We’ll get a small commission if you purchase this way, which is a great way to support the show!
A quote to consider: “The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.” - from Middlemarch by George Eliot
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Our texts this week are here: https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=281
Our prayer this week is from Malcolm Guite’s collectionParable and Paradox. We also mentioned the prayer of confession from The Book of Common Prayer. Browse the rest of our curated book lists through our Bookshop.org affiliate link here: https://bookshop.org/shop/aplainaccount. We’ll get a small commission if you purchase this way.
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Our texts this week are here: https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=281
Our prayer this week is from Malcolm Guite’s collectionParable and Paradox. We also mentioned the prayer of confession from The Book of Common Prayer. Browse the rest of our curated book lists through our Bookshop.org affiliate link here: https://bookshop.org/shop/aplainaccount. We’ll get a small commission if you purchase this way.
Alabaster Bibles integrate visual imagery and thoughtful design into different books of the Bible.
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Other resources on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music.
Our texts this week are here
Our prayer this week: “Mammon of Unrighteousness” by Malcolm Guite (from Parable and Paradox). Browse the rest of our curated book lists through our Bookshop.org affiliate link here: https://bookshop.org/shop/aplainaccount. We’ll get a small commission if you purchase this way.
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- We used our break from the podcast to come up with ways to make the work of the show more sustainable. The key way we’ll be doing that is through Patreon. Patreon, for those who don’t know, is an interface that allows supporters of the show to engage and build community, while sustaining our work on the podcast. The episodes on our main feed will continue to be freely available to everyone who wants to listen, but our Patreon community will be able to actively participate in so much more. Stay tuned for more information about how you can join us on Patreon, support our work, and participate in extra events/webinars/discussions as a friend of the show
Other resources on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music.
Our texts this week are here
Our prayer this week: “Mammon of Unrighteousness” by Malcolm Guite (from Parable and Paradox). Browse the rest of our curated book lists through our Bookshop.org affiliate link here: https://bookshop.org/shop/aplainaccount. We’ll get a small commission if you purchase this way.
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- We used our break from the podcast to come up with ways to make the work of the show more sustainable. The key way we’ll be doing that is through Patreon. Patreon, for those who don’t know, is an interface that allows supporters of the show to engage and build community, while sustaining our work on the podcast. The episodes on our main feed will continue to be freely available to everyone who wants to listen, but our Patreon community will be able to actively participate in so much more. Stay tuned for more information about how you can join us on Patreon, support our work, and participate in extra events/webinars/discussions as a friend of the show
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Our texts this week are here
Our prayer this week is “Forgive Us” by Malcolm Guite
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Our texts this week are here
Our prayer this week is “Forgive Us” by Malcolm Guite
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We had a great time from Advent to Pentecost! We’re really proud of this content we’re producing! And we want it to be sustainable for the long haul! To that end– we’re taking a summer break– from June to August. Expect us back in your podcast feeds the first week of September discussing the Gospel of Luke
In the meantime, we’ll be working hard to find ways to make this project sustainable for the team– exploring options for funding and listener support. Fill out our listener survey here:
Also, we know that many lectionary preachers take a break during the summer– that’s us too! If that’s your plan as well, here are some things to consider for sermon planning:
- Topics that need to be addressed—vision, discipleship, prayer, worship, service, etc…
- Biblical books; only 10% of the OT is in the lectionary, so there's a lot to choose from! Consider shorter narrative books like Ruth, Esther, Jonah, Nehemiah, etc...
- Interests/struggles of the congregation… lament, spiritual gifts, vocation, etc...
- Sermon Series: Beatitudes, line by line. Lord’s Prayer, line by line. Fruit of the Spirit >>> the book Alicia mentioned is Analog Christian: Cultivating Contentment, Resilience, and Wisdom in the Digital Age by Jay Y. Kim, out July 26. The story of Exodus or other Old Testament story arcs. Women of Scripture. Table stories and hospitality. Racial Justice, Environmental justice, Economic Justice.
Our texts this week are here
Our prayer for this week is from Fran Pratt: A Litany for Walking in the Spirit
The common prayer from Refuge Home Church http://www.refugehomechurch.org/
Walter Brueggemann in The Prophetic Imagination – “Imagination comes before implementation.”
Quote from Jerusha Madsen Neal on workingpreacher.org; more from Jerusha Madsen Neal and the Spirit’s work in her book, The Overshadowed Preacher
Other resources on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music.
We’ll be spending the Easter season in the book of Acts. Between Megan & Alicia, we will be reading from several Acts commentaries. Commentaries mentioned –
- Acts by Willie Jennings (Belief: A Theological Commentary on the Bible)
- The NBBC Acts commentary by Richard P Thompson
- Acts For Everyone by N T Wright
- Acts by Beverly Gaventa. (Abingdon New Testament Commentaries)
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Our texts this week are here. Reader’s theatre of Acts 16.
Learn more about The New Jim Crowand Michelle Alexander’s work on her TEDxTalk or this interview with Krista Tippett
Our prayer for this week – “A blessing for a prisoner” from To Bless The Space Between Us by John O’Donohue
Other resources on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music.
We’ll be spending the Easter season in the book of Acts. Between Megan & Alicia, we will be reading from several Acts commentaries. Commentaries mentioned –
- Acts by Willie Jennings (Belief: A Theological Commentary on the Bible)
- The NBBC Acts commentary by Richard P Thompson
- Acts For Everyone by N T Wright
- Acts by Beverly Gaventa. (Abingdon New Testament Commentaries)
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Our texts this week are here
Our prayer for this week Every Moment Holy
- A liturgy for those who employ others
- A liturgy for those who feel awkward in social gatherings
"Lydia's faith becomes immediately active: she is baptized along with her whole household, and she opens her home. Social and cultural barriers crumble, and this corner of the empire is beginning to be changed by God's grace." – Brian Peterson, Preaching This Week, WorkingPreacher.org, 2013.
We’ll be spending the Easter season in the book of Acts. Between Megan & Alicia, we will be reading from several Acts commentaries. Commentaries mentioned –
- Acts by Willie Jennings (Belief: A Theological Commentary on the Bible)
- The NBBC Acts commentary by Richard P Thompson
- Acts For Everyone by N T Wright
- Acts by Beverly Gaventa. (Abingdon New Testament Commentaries)
Other resources on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music.
Our texts this week are here
Our prayer for this week: Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community
We’ll be spending the Easter season in the book of Acts. Between Megan & Alicia, we will be reading from several Acts commentaries. Commentaries mentioned –
- Acts by Willie Jennings (Belief: A Theological Commentary on the Bible)
- The NBBC Acts commentary by Richard P Thompson
- Acts For Everyone by N T Wright
- Acts by Beverly Gaventa. (Abingdon New Testament Commentaries)
Other resources on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music.
Our texts this week are here
Our prayer for this week – “A liturgy before serving others” from Every Moment Holy (vol 1)
“All day long, as I watch the breeze toss these clothes in the wind, I imagine my prayers spinning away over the tops of the trees. This is good work, this prayer. This is good prayer, this work. So is digging in the garden, cleaning the chicken pens, washing the potatoes, doing the dishes. I know there are people who would give anything to do these things, people whose bodies have become too numb, too busy, too old or painful to do them. These are the practices that sustain life—not only my life and the lives entwined with mine, but the lives of all living beings.” Barbara Brown Taylor, Altar in the World (p. 46-47)
Tabitha-type projects worth checking out:
- Hookin' for Hope Project: https://olivebranchministry.org/faith-in-harm-reduction-1
- Knitting for Peace Project: https://www.knitting4peace.org/what-we-do/patterns
We’ll be spending the Easter season in the book of Acts. Between Megan & Alicia, we will be reading from several Acts commentaries, including –
- Acts by Willie Jennings (Belief: A Theological Commentary on the Bible)
- The NBBC Acts commentary by Richard P Thompson
- Acts For Everyone by N T Wright
- Acts by Beverly Gaventa. (Abingdon New Testament Commentaries)
Other resources on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music.
Our texts this week are here
Our prayer for this week is “Not Held” by Walter Brueggeman, from the collection Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth
We highly recommend the bookJust Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Pádraig Ó Tuama reflects on Ilya Kaminsky’s poem, “We Lived Happily During War” in this episode of Poetry Unbound
We’ll be spending the Easter season in the book of Acts. Between Megan & Alicia, we will be reading from several Acts commentaries. Commentaries mentioned –
- Acts by Willie Jennings (Belief: A Theological Commentary on the Bible)
- The NBBC Acts commentary by Richard P. Thompson
- Acts For Everyone by N. T. Wright
- Acts by Beverly Gaventa. (Abingdon New Testament Commentaries)
Other resources on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music.
Our texts for this week are here
Consider utilizing the resources for Earth Day Sunday provided by our friends at Nazarenes For Creation Care nazarenesforcreationcare.com
We’ll be spending the Easter season in the book of Acts. Between Megan & Alicia, we will be reading from several Acts commentaries. Commentaries mentioned –
- Acts by Willie Jennings (Belief: A Theological Commentary on the Bible)
- The NBBC Acts commentary by Richard P Thompson
- Acts For Everyone by N T Wright
- Acts by Beverly Gaventa (Abingdon New Testament Commentaries)
Prayer from Sarah Bessey – Prayer for Loving the World Again by Sarah Bessey from A Rhythm of Prayer: A Collection of Meditations for Renewal
Our texts this week are here
Our prayer this week is from Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community, by Padraig O’Tuama
Our sponsor this week: Nazarenes for Creation Care … Earth Day Sunday - April 24th 2022 - Nazarenes for Creation Care is offering this free resource to help congregations engage creation in meaningful ways this April 24th. This downloadable resource will include a special liturgy, Scripture readings, song suggestions, prayers, a bulletin insert, action items for engaging in caring for God's good creation, and more! https://www.nazarenesforcreationcare.com/earth-day-sunday.html
Other resources on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music.
Our texts this week are here
Our prayer this week is here - "Palm Sunday" by Malcolm Guite
Other resources on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music.
Earth Day Sunday - April 24th 2022 - Nazarenes for Creation Care is offering this free resource to help congregations engage creation in meaningful ways this April 24th. This downloadable resource will include a special liturgy, Scripture readings, song suggestions, prayers, a bulletin insert, action items for engaging in caring for God's good creation, and more!
Our texts this week are here
Sacrifice Zones: geographic areas that have been permanently impaired by environmental damage (especially from toxic pollution or economic disinvestment), or places where people are inevitably stuck in inhospitable places (for example, island nations suffering from sea-level rise). In Sacrifice Zones, Steve Lerner tells the stories of twelve communities, from Brooklyn to Pensacola, that rose up to fight the industries and military bases causing disproportionately high levels of chemical pollution.
“We are called to prophetic work not nostalgic work” – Jo Saxton’s sermon at WHWC
Other resources on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music.
Our texts this week are here.
Our prayer for this week is here: Blessed Be Our Table, by Neil Paynter (p 247)
- God, you have given us all kinds of plants, those that bear grain and those that bear fruit.
- O, taste and see that the Lord is good.
- You have given us, your word and law, sweeter than honey, sweeter than honey dripping from the comb
- O, taste and see that the Lord is good.
- You have given us manna in the wilderness of our wandering and daily bread to sustain
- O, taste and see that the Lord is good.
- For all you have given us, generous, loving God, we praise you. Amen.
"Hoarding stinks." - Daniel Erlanger, Manna and Mercy: A Brief History of God's Unfolding Promise to Mend the Entire Universe
Reflecting on eating locally: 100 Mile Diet: A Year of Eating Locally, by Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, by Barbara Kingsolver.
Ways to pray for Ukraine– consider baking a Ukrainian bread recipe
Other resources on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music.
Our texts this week are here.
Our prayer for this week is here: “Revise our taking” fromAwed to Heaven, Rooted in Earthby Walter Brueggemann
Other resources on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music. Check out the Lenten Devotional!
N4CC: How to Eat Together as a Church
Walter Brueggemann writes about the geography of imagination in Israel’s Praise and how imagination must come before implementation in The Prophetic Imagination.
“Isaiah offers us hope that is grounded, but not limited.” -Rev. Aaron Moschitto
Our texts this week are here.
Our prayer for this week is here. It is adapted from Justice for Immigrants, “Prayer and Liturgy Suggestions,” originally posted on the Justice for Immigrants website.
Other resources on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music.
Check out the Lenten Devotional, The Way Through, and Alicia’s Spotify playlist
Our texts this week are here
“Food means everything if you don’t have it and nothing if you do.” - Germaine Jenkins (see the whole conversation here)
Our prayer for this week is from the book titled Blessed Be Our Table (p 63)
Other resources on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music.
Check out the Lenten Devotional "The Way Through"
Alicia’s Lenten playlist on Spotify
Extra content for you! Enjoy this bonus episode where we talk about the season of Lent. https://onbeing.org/programs/wendell-berry-ellen-davis-the-art-of-being-creatures/ https://www.ted.com/talks/katharine_hayhoe_the_most_important_thing_you_can_do_to_fight_climate_change_talk_about_it?language=en
In this Episode we talk about the Transfiguration of Jesus as recorded in Luke 9:28-36. This seemingly bizarre event defies our understanding (at least as westerners), which might not a bad thing...
Our texts for this week are here.
Our prayer for this week is here.
We recommend this brief article with an overview and further links about trauma-informed preaching.
Consider Romans 12 as a parallel text, especially for talking about forgiveness.
Alicia’s discussion of forgiveness is in part influenced by an article by Matt Potts: “Mourning for forgiveness.” Theology 122, no. 3 (May 2019), 180-187. His forthcoming book, Forgiveness: On Accountability and Atonement (from Yale University Press), is very high on her to-be-read list.
Other resources on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music.
Our texts this week are here.
We frequently discuss the practices of reading the Bible from the margins, and a “dislocated exegesis.” For further reading, see Reading the Bible from the Margins by Miguel A de La Torre, The Word Before the Powers by Charles Campbell, and Preaching as Testimony, by Anna Carter Florence.
A companion text from Paul’s epistle: “You can be sure that no immoral, impure, or greedy person will inherit the Kingdom of Christ and of God. For a greedy person is an idolater, worshiping the things of this world.” - Ephesians 5:5, NLT
Megan quotes Stanley P. Saunders from Preaching the Gospel of Matthew: Proclaiming God’s Presence.
You can read more from the Solentiname Island community in Lake Nicaragua in The Gospel in Solentiname by Ernesto Cardenal.
Our prayer this week is adapted from the Beatitudes. Read the entire prayer here.
Other resources on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music.
Our texts for this week are here
Our prayer for this week is a poem from Malcolm Guite: “St Peter”
Here is a version of the children’s song with motions "I Will Make You Fishers of Men"
Other resources on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music.
Our texts for this week are here. Old Testament references include: Elijah & the Widow in 1 Kings 17:1-16 and Elisha & Naaman in 2 Kings 5:1-14
Our prayer for this week from Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community by Padraig O'Tuama
Our Greek word study via StepBible.org: ἐκβάλλω (ekballō) 'to expel' (G1544)
Discussion about "powers & principalities" from Charles Campbell, The Word Before the Powers
Other resources on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music.
Our texts for this week are here.
Our prayer for this week from Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community by Padraig O Tuama
Elijah & the Widow– 1 Kings 17:1-16
Elisha & Naaman– 2 Kings 5:1-14
Word Study via StepBible.org: ἐκβάλλω (ekballō) 'to expel' (G1544)
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Our texts for this week are here. A transcript of this episode will be available on our website.
Our prayer for this week is here. “When the water rushed into the emptiness you were surprised that you were surprised, that you could even feel the sudden wellspring when you thought all had been poured out. And then suddenly the sweetness that stuns you that tells you this was not all, this was not the end that this blessing was saving the best for last.” - Jan Richardson
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Our prayer this week is from the Revised Common Lectionary web page– if you haven’t already, check out their calendar feature to add the RCL into your favorite calendar app.
A Life of Jesus, by Shusaku Endo
Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson. The scene Alicia refers to: “You and Tobias are hopping around in the sprinkler. The sprinkler is a magnificent invention because it exposes raindrops to sunshine. That does happen in nature, but it is rare. When I was in seminary, I used to go sometimes to watch the Baptists down at the river. It was something to see the preacher lifting the one who was being baptized up out of the water and the water pouring off the garments and the hair. It did look like a birth or a resurrection. For us, the water just heightens the touch of the pastor’s hand on the sweet bones of the head. Sort of like making an electrical connection. I’ve always loved to baptize people, though I have sometimes wished there were more shimmer and splash involved in the way we go about it. Well, but you two are dancing around in your iridescent little downpour, whooping and stomping as sane people ought to do when they encounter a thing so miraculous as water.” (page 63)
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Malcolm Guite sonnet
Josh Ritter Song– “The Gospel of Mary”
Liz Vice Song– “The Refugee King”
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The excerpt from Oscar Romero's Christmas Eve sermon is here in Spanish and here in English.
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Poetry Unbound episode featuring Katie Manning’s poem “What to Expect When You’re Expecting”
Our prayer this week is from Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community, by Padraig O'Tuama
Also mentioned: The Overshadowed Preacher, by Jerusha Matsen Neal and “Hidden Joys: A Sonnet for the Visitation”, by Malcom Guite
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Megan refers to the work of Ernesto Cardenal and the book Gospel in Solentiname. For many years, the peasants in Solentiname, a remote archipelago in Lake Nicaragua, gathered each Sunday to reflect on the gospel reading. Read more here.
Quote from Thomas Merton: “To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything is to succumb to violence. Frenzy destroys our inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.” (quoted in A Guide to Prayer for Ministers and Other Servants, by Rueben P. Job and Norman Shawchuck)
Our Advent prayer this week is from Paul G. Janssen on re:Worship.blogspot.com.
Also, here’s Alicia’s 2021 Advent playlist if you’re looking for a soundtrack for the Advent season.
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The quote Megan mentioned and the full article is here: “Get mad enough to help somebody.”
The poem Alicia mentioned: “Caminante, No Hay Camino” by Antonio Machado.
The song Alicia mentioned is “Zechariah and the Least Expected Places” by So Elated.
Also, here’s Alicia’s2021 Advent playlist if you’re looking for a soundtrack for the season.
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The quote Megan read is fromBreathing Space, by Heidi Neumark.
“How easy it is to let the daily grind distract us from the pain and inequity around the world-- it's enough to make us feel numb all over. But the Scripture this week tells us to ‘stand up!’" - The Salt Project Advent Resource.
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Our text this week: John 18:33-37
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Mark 13:1-8
Our collect for the week comes from the Book of Common Prayer: Collect for Vocation in Daily Work: Almighty God our heavenly Father, you declare your glory and show forth your handiwork in the heavens and in the earth: Deliver us in our various occupations from the service of self alone, that we may do the work you give us to do in truth and beauty and for the common good; for the sake of him who came among us as one who serves, your Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
MARK 12:28-34
The collect for All Saints Day: Almighty God, you have knit together your elect in one communion and fellowship in the mystical body of your Son Christ our Lord: Give us grace so to follow your blessed saints in all virtuous and godly living, that we may come to those ineffable joys that you have prepared for those who truly love you; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, in glory everlasting. Amen.
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Today we’re reading Mark 10, in the season of Ordinary time, looking at themes of discipleship. And this week, we finally meet a disciple who gets what Jesus is up to, and follows him on the way.
Today we’re reading Mark 10:35-45, in the season of Ordinary time, looking at themes of discipleship. This week Jesus has a thunderous showdown, with none other than the sons of thunder, James & John. Join us for a conversation about power & ambition in the Kingdom of God.
Mark 10:17-31 -- Today we’re reading Mark 10, in the season of Ordinary time, looking at themes of discipleship” … this week Jesus interviews a potential disciple and if you thought Marie Kondo was a strict minimalist, wait til you meet Jesus!
Jesus gets indignant?!? Join Ben and Alicia this week as they discuss Mark chapter 10, verses 12 through 16.
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Matthew 4:1-11
Temptation of Jesus
4 Then the Spirit led Jesus up into the wilderness so that the devil might tempt him. 2 After Jesus had fasted for forty days and forty nights, he was starving. 3 The tempter came to him and said, “Since you are God’s Son, command these stones to become bread.”
4 Jesus replied, “It’s written, People won’t live only by bread, but by every word spoken by God.”
5 After that the devil brought him into the holy city and stood him at the highest point of the temple. He said to him, 6 “Since you are God’s Son, throw yourself down; for it is written, I will command my angels concerning you, and they will take you up in their hands so that you won’t hit your foot on a stone.”
7 Jesus replied, “Again it’s written, Don’t test the Lord your God.”
8 Then the devil brought him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. 9 He said, “I’ll give you all these if you bow down and worship me.”
10 Jesus responded, “Go away, Satan, because it’s written,You will worship the Lord your God and serve only him.” 11 The devil left him, and angels came and took care of him.
John 1:29-42 Common English Bible (CEB)29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! 30 This is the one about whom I said, ‘He who comes after me is really greater than me because he existed before me.’ 31 Even I didn’t recognize him, but I came baptizing with water so that he might be made known to Israel.” 32 John testified, “I saw the Spirit coming down from heaven like a dove, and it rested on him. 33 Even I didn’t recognize him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘The one on whom you see the Spirit coming down and resting is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’ 34 I have seen and testified that this one is God’s Son.”Jesus calls disciples35 The next day John was standing again with two of his disciples. 36 When he saw Jesus walking along he said, “Look! The Lamb of God!” 37 The two disciples heard what he said, and they followed Jesus.38 When Jesus turned and saw them following, he asked, “What are you looking for?”They said, “Rabbi (which is translated Teacher), where are you staying?”39 He replied, “Come and see.” So they went and saw where he was staying, and they remained with him that day. It was about four o’clock in the afternoon.40 One of the two disciples who heard what John said and followed Jesus was Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter. 41 He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, “We have found the Messiah” (which is translated Christ[a] ). 42 He led him to Jesus.Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon, son of John. You will be called Cephas” (which is translated Peter).