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Proper 23 | Ordinary Time 28 | Pentecost 21 ›
Mark 10:17-31
Hebrews 4:12-16
Job 23:1-9, 16-17
Amos 5:6-7, 10-15
Psalm 22:1-15

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    John Jamison
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  • Emphasis Preaching Journal

    David Coffin
    A younger clergy colleague once shared in our ministerial group that people in his generation do not like using the phone (despite an abundance of cellphones) to communicate. They prefer text messaging or email because they do not want to have to watch their words in modern telephone etiquette. They grow weary of gender identity, definitions of what is and is not politically correct change...

  • Emphasis Preaching Journal

    Mark Ellingsen
    Bonnie Bates
    Frank Ramirez
    Bill Thomas
    Job 23:1-9, 16-17
    I came across this anecdote about President Abraham Lincoln. Joseph R. Sizoo was the pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington. Years before, Abraham Lincoln often attended that church. Sizoo said he will never forget the day he held in his hands for the first time the Bible of Abraham Lincoln. It was the Bible from which Lincoln’s...

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    Frank Ramirez
    “If I go forward, he is not there; or backward, I cannot perceive him; on the left he hides, and I cannot behold him; I turn to the right, but I cannot see him. But he knows the way I take….” (vv. 8-10)

    You don’t have to be able to see something for it to be there. You may not fully understand what it is, for it to be fully what it is. And sometimes it’s a little child that...

  • The Village Shepherd

    Janice B. Scott
    Call to Worship:

    The rich man asked Jesus, "What must I do to inherit eternal life?" As we explore that question in our worship today, let us open ourselves to Jesus and listen for his response to us.

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    Mark Ellingsen
    Theme of the Day
    Taking sin seriously.

    Collect of the Day
    Petitions are offered to increase the gift of faith that believers might forsake the past to reach out to the future, following the commandments and receiving the crown of everlasting joy. Sanctification (worked by grace as a gift) and eschatology are emphasized.

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    James Evans
    (See Good Friday, Cycle A; Good Friday, Cycle B; and Lent 2, Cycle B, for alternative approaches.)

    Psalm 22, perhaps more than any other text in the Bible, gives eloquent expression to the loneliness and isolation which comes from experiencing God's absence. We can debate the reality of a theology of abandonment, arguing back and forth whether or not God ever actually does...

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    Stephen M. Crotts
    And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him, and asked him, "Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?" And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone. You know the commandments: Do not kill, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not defraud, honor your father and mother." And he said to...

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    H. Alan Stewart
    Ancient people were terrorized by the thought of God. We have to strain our minds and our imaginations to try to conceive of the confusion and fear that people of antiquity faced when trying to get to know and understand God. They looked at the weather, the storms and the peaceful days, their own lives, the times of the year, and the way nature unfolded and tried to understand God.

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    Paul W. F. Harms
    Adolph Hitler had a dream of a thousand-year empire. The years may make us forget too soon and too easily the terror that was Adolph Hitler. The terror was that this little man, not in stature alone, but in smallness of mind, had managed to do in an extraordinary degree what others had done before him, and what we are all capable of doing. What he did, says Kenneth Burke, was to make virtue vice...

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