Wednesday - Pentecost 17 - Proper 19
Highlights and Reflections
Daily Office Readings | Book of Common Prayer - written in the 1970s
Week after the 17th Sunday after Pentecost - Proper 19
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Psalm 66
Praise the Lord in always; Let me praise the Lord; A community psalm of thanksgiving for rescue and let the world acknowledge it (NOAB4)
Numbers 21
A liberated Israel wandering in the wilderness and they have a snake problem; The Lord said to Moses, “Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.” So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived.; an ancient symbol for healing and physicians; still used in the military to denote physicians.
1 Peter 3
For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit.
John 3
Jesus ties the saving and healing of Israel in the wilderness to be the same healing and salvation given to the world. Far too many Christians have focused on the perishing rather than eternal life and ignore that God did not come to condemn but to save the world and us.
Tomorrow | Thursday | 15 September 2016
Ps. [70] 71; Ps. 74; Job 28:1–28; Acts 16:25–40; John 12:27–36a
Ps. [70] 71; Ps. 74; Job 28:1–28; Acts 16:25–40; John 12:27–36a
Prayer
God our Creator, you created humankind in your image, and blessed us with your love. Help us to show that love to one another as we work for equality for all races in education, housing, public services, and employment opportunity. Give us strength and courage to speak out against injustice, and to work for the transformation of unjust systems that keep some in bondage: that we may more fully live out your kingdom here on earth; through Jesus Christ your son, who came to set us free. Amen.
A Year of Prayers to End Racism - Episcopal Diocese of West Virginia (USA)
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