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Be Like Andrew!
By guest blogger, Lorienne Schwenk Jeremiah 31:31-34 Hebrews 5:5-10 John 12:20-33 Psalm 119:9-16 Ben has some other things to take his time, so I offered to share my musings on the readings for a little while. On this Fifth Sunday of Lent, our last before Holy Week, we hear the voice of Jeremiah. Let me quote a little, “The days are surely coming, says the Lord. I will put my law within them and I will write it on their…
Take up Your Cross
By Ben Nucum Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16 Romans 4:13-25 Mark 8:31-38 Psalm 22:22-30 I decided to do something different this week and be very open with my own trials and sufferings with Christ and within Christ. I suffer from bipolar disorder type 2, and I often suffer from both hypomanic (elevated) moods and depressive moods, and the past couple weeks I have been suffering from a particularly potent depressive episode. I wasn’t sure if I was going to write this blog…
Baptism and Covenant
Genesis 9:8-17 1 Peter 3:18-22 Mark 1:9-15 Psalm 25:1-9 The images of baptism in the water and of the covenant (which includes the baptismal covenant) permeate through this week’s texts. The Genesis reading takes place after Noah and his family survive the deluge, and they have arrived on dry land. God makes a covenant with Noah and his sons: “I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood,…
Transfiguration
2 Kings 2:1-12 2 Corinthians 4:3-6 Mark 9:2-9 Psalm 50:1-6 The theme of this Transfiguration Sunday’s reading is light: the light of the fire of the whirlwind that took up Elijah, the light of God shining forth from Zion in the Psalm, light of the transfiguration itself, and the light of the Gospel in Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians. In the 2 Kings passage, Elijah will be taken up by God: this is public knowledge known to the company…
BENEDICTION WEEKLY – Week of February 7, 2021
Unless otherwise stated, our meetings happen on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/s/7977776046?pwd=VUFZSXY3UVpNVitJaDl2VmhPS3E2UT09 Passcode is: 93402 The 10:30 am Sunday service is live-streamed on Facebook: www.facebook.com/stbenslososos/ but you do not have to sign up for Facebook to watch it. You can also watch it on our website: https://www.stbenslososos.org/facebook-including-live-stream/ Service leaflets are available under the Worship tab on our website: https://www.stbenslososos.org/category/service-bulletin/ This Week at St. Benedict’s Sunday, Feb 7 8:00 am – Worship service (Zoom) 9:30 am – Outdoor Service in church parking lot – weather permitting 10:30 am –…
“Have you not heard? Have you not known?”
“Have you not heard? Have you not known?” says the Prophet Isaiah. The answer juxtaposes Creator and Creation. Creation points to the Creator. Both Isaiah and the Psalmist of Psalm 117 look at the simultaneous fragility and glory of Creation to point to both evidence and the revealed power of the Creator. All inhabitants look like grasshoppers to God, and God has complete control over the happenings of the earth. Not only does He have control over its greatest humans in the form of rulers…
Epiphany 4
Deuteronomy 18:15-20 1 Corinthians 8:1-13 Mark 1:21-28 “The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own people…” – The LORD will raise up a prophet like Moses from among the Israelites. What was Moses like? Moses survived an infant genocide, was a liberator of his people from the bondage of the Egyptians, and he led his people through the waters of the Yam Suph into the wilderness, to Mount Horeb to give…