Click here to find this in a downloadable (.doc) document. #1 Your Empire O Life-Giver at the heart of all Being,holy is your presence.May your Empire of grace replace our own,and your delight be fulfilled,as this world becomes heaven.Give us our sustenance, one breath at a time,and make us completely forgiving of ourselves and others.Save… Continue reading The Lord’s Prayer- Ten Paraphrases
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OT 24
Lectionary Texts In Jeremiah 18. 1-11 God says, “You are the clay and I am the potter. I reshape you as I see fit.” Psalm 139 prays, “God, you created me.” (Knitted and woven, specifically, which were women’s work). “You know me; you are always with me. Help me to avoid doing evil.” Philemon was… Continue reading OT 24
OT 23 – 13th Sunday After Pentecost
September 7, 2025 Lectionary Texts Jeremiah 18. 1-11 — “You are the clay and I am the potter. I reshape you as I see fit.” Psalm 139 — “God, you created me.” (Knitted and woven, specifically, which were women’s work). “You know me; you are always with me. Help me to avoid doing evil.” Philemon… Continue reading OT 23 – 13th Sunday After Pentecost
OT 21 – 11th Sunday after Pentecost
August 24, 2025 Lectionary Texts Jeremiah 1.4-10 — Jeremiah’s call. “I am too young.” … “I am with you. I have put my words in your mouth.” Psalm 71.1-6 — I take refuge in you. You are my hope, from my youth. Hebrews 12.18-29 — You have not come to something that can be touched…You… Continue reading OT 21 – 11th Sunday after Pentecost
OT 18 – Eighth Sunday after Pentecost
August 3, 2025 Lectionary Texts Hosea 11.1-11 — When Israel was a child I loved him, but my people are bent on turning away from me. …Yet.. how can I give you up? I will not execute my anger. I am God, and not human. Psalm 107 — A series of vignettes of God’s saving… Continue reading OT 18 – Eighth Sunday after Pentecost
OT 16 – Sixth Sunday after Pentecost
July 20, 2025 Lectionary Texts Amos 8.1-12 — A basket of fruit, which will soon rot. Psalm 52 — Critique of those who seek refuge in wealth. “I am a green tree,” a living creature, receiving life from God and bearing fruit in God’s spirit.—or—Psalm 82 — A cry for God to condemn the wicked… Continue reading OT 16 – Sixth Sunday after Pentecost
OT 13- Third Sunday after Pentecost
June 29, 2025 Lectionary Texts 2 Kings 2. 1-2, 6-14 — Elijah is taken up into heaven. Elisha follows and receives his prophetic spirit. Psalm 77 — In the day of trouble I seek you. Has God forgotten to be gracious? You are the God who works wonders, as in the exodus. Galatians 5.1, 13-25… Continue reading OT 13- Third Sunday after Pentecost
OT 12 – Second Sunday After Pentecost
June 22, 2022 Lectionary Texts 1 Kings 19. 1-15 — Elijah flees to the wilderness. At Mt. Horeb, he encounters God in utter silence. God sends him back to Damascus to get to work. Psalm 42 — “As a deer longs for flowing streams, so my soul thirsts for you.” Hope in God, who gives… Continue reading OT 12 – Second Sunday After Pentecost
OT 11
Lectionary Texts In 1 Kings 21. 1-21 King Ahab wants Naboth’s vineyard, his ancestral inheritance, for himself. Ahab’s wife Jezebel gets Naboth killed so that Ahab can take the vineyard. The prophet Elijah confronts Ahab about his evil. Psalm 5. 1-8 is a lament, crying out to God for justice and protection against the malice… Continue reading OT 11
OT 10
Lectionary Texts In 1 Kings 17.8-24 the prophet Elijah is staying with a widow and her son. The child becomes ill and dies, and Elijah brings him back to life. Psalm 146 is a song of praise to God, who made all Creation, and who sets prisoners free, brings justice for the oppressed, and lifts… Continue reading OT 10