Sentences with phrase «lectionary readings»

I love that our friend Preston Yancey has created a super-simple blog providing daily lectionary readings from the two - year cycle found in the 1979 Book of Common Prayer.

Let's be more concerned to fulfill what Ephesians 3:6 says in the Western lectionary reading for Epiphany, that Jew and gentile should be «copartners» in the «same body.»

As Advent lectionary readings show, God comes in many ways, and so Advent also looks ahead to God's future interventions in history, and especially to his final advent at the last day....

Mine include 20 years of a weekly gathering with eight or more for breakfast, prayer and an hour with lectionary readings.

Lectionary readings tease our minds because of their odd combination of openness and closure.

Today's lectionary readings contrast Paul's focus on the death of Christ for the ungodly in Romans with the mission of the 12 disciples in the Gospel of Matthew.

If I wasn't in the institutional church that has regular lectionary reading I would not have got around to reading or conceiving Jeremiah 23.

This week's lectionary readings juxtapose two sets of final words, one from John's Gospel as Jesus prepares to go to his death, and another from Acts as he prepares to ascend into heaven.

They include the enrichment of common worship by lectionary readings, the liturgical calendar, the biblical and historical prayers of the church (especially the Lord's Prayer), corporate confession of sin, and the assurance of pardon.

These beliefs are reinforced by parallel texts in the New Testament, including the Advent lectionary readings.

Paul did not emphasize the divine basiliea as Jesus did, but in the lectionary reading from Colossians, we read of the basiliea of God's beloved son in contrast to the «power of darkness» from which believers have been rescued.

That may be the case with the first portion of our lectionary reading containing the summary of the law: we have undoubtedly overheard it.

In the lectionary reading for the fourth Sunday of Advent, Ahaz declines to ask God for a sign lest he put God to the test and thus be guilty of what Scripture elsewhere denounces as spiritual presumption.

You know how we say at the end of a lectionary reading in some churches, «The Word of the Lord»?

But perfectly expressing the sacramental view of scripture is what is said after the lectionary reading in the New Zealand Book of Common Prayer: «Hear what the Spirit is saying to the church.»

When I speak about the Bible as a human product, I have sometimes thought we should say at the end of a lectionary reading, «Some thoughts from ancient Israel.»

The verse leading up to the lectionary reading tells us that «all the Athenians and the foreigners living there would spend their time in nothing but telling or hearing something new» (Acts 17:21).

Look at the other texts in the lectionary readings:

Participate in the «Stay Woke» movement, which invites participants to reflect and act on the lectionary readings from Advent with visual art, literary and biblical reflections, music, podcasts, calls to action, and more.

My experience was that in ways little short of amazing, a theme or text would emerge from the lectionary readings and speak to the human condition at the moment.

Then these lectionary readings appear and there's a problem.

Catholics commemorate martyrs regularly as part of their lectionary readings, and those who pray with monastic breviaries ask for the martyrs to pray for them.