I Samuel 2:18-20, 26
Christmas 1C
[…] a pile of righteousness in her lap, stitching first the compassion, then the kindness and compassion, pausing over the humility and patience, humming lullabies of peace and thanksgiving, tunes this mother hopes to one day hear her own child offering back to her in psalms, hymns and songs from the Spirit. Worship Idea: United […]
Psalm 119:1-8
Proper 26B
[…] details how we are saved through Christ alone. Instead they put the specifics of the Ten Commandments in the Gratitude section that details how we express our thanksgiving to God for so great a salvation. That, then, may suggest how we can properly appropriate and appreciate Psalm 119’s long celebration of God’s commands and […]
Mark 1:1-8
Advent 2B
[…] thinking about or singing about inside the Church. Advent is different. True, no one calls it “Advent” in the wider society. The whole shebang from slightly before Thanksgiving in the U.S. to around New Year’s Day is generically called “Christmas,” but at least people have the basic nub of understanding of what we’re doing […]
Job 23:1-9, 16-17
Proper 23B
[…] such language disrespectful or sacrilegious and yet the Psalmists’ language of lament, of anger, of distress is just as canonized as those psalms filled with praise and thanksgiving. And so, rather than a bolt of lightning, God responds to Job with the same grace he provides throughout the Old Testament story of Israel – […]
Ephesians 6:10-20
Proper 16B
[…] Greek word that we generally translate as “prayers,” by setting it next to deeseos (“requests”), he may be at least inviting Christians to pray our praise and thanksgiving, as well as supplication. Jesus’ friends don’t just ask God for things, as important as they may be. We also prayerfully praise God for who God […]
Psalm 78:23-29
Proper 13B
[…] have a life in us that will well up to all eternity. And that right there is more than sufficient reason to generate a never-ending stream of thanksgiving and transformed living. Illustration Idea The first time we hear of manna and quail in the Old Testament is in Exodus 16. It is not long […]
Psalm 23
Proper 11B
[…] life is never any good and we can find no hope, those psalms likewise have to be in conversation with other more hope-filled poems of praise and thanksgiving and celebration. Psalm 23, however, manages the neat trick of having that gamut of the wider Hebrew Psalter all packed down into its short span of […]
Psalm 30
Proper 8B
[…] for the dedication of a Temple that in his life did not yet exist. Instead what we have in Psalm 30 is a pretty straightforward psalm of thanksgiving to God for his past deliverances of the psalmist from various pits and mire even as the psalm concludes with a plea for God to keep […]
Psalm 62:5-12
Epiphany 3B
[…] Were these people literally some kind of military adversary? Maybe. Were they just nasty people, unpleasant co-workers, maybe even extended family members who like to turn annual Thanksgiving Day meals into a chance to poke fun of their relatives who are so naïve as to still profess to holding to the Christian faith? Again, […]
1 Thessalonians 1:1-10
Proper 24A
[…] the biblical scholar Amy L.B. Peeler writes, that God is responsible for these evidences of the impact of the Thessalonians’ election on them. God deserves all the thanksgiving for this transformation. The work of the Triune God has both created and sustained Thessalonica’s Christians’ faith. So yes, the Thessalonians have let the Spirit use […]
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