Monthly Archives: December 2006
Daily Lectionary Readings and Devotion for Monday, December 18, 2006
Click the links below to read the lectionary passages for today, Monday, December 18. Psalm 41, 52 – Morning Psalm 44 – Evening Isaiah 8:16-9:1 2 Peter 1:1-11 Luke 22:39-53 Today’s Featured Verses – 2 Peter 1:5-8 For this very reason, you must make every effort to support your faith with goodness, and goodness with [...]
Beware – My Sermon for Sunday, December 17, 2006
This is my sermon for tomorrow morning – about eight hours from now. If anyone has any comments to improve it, please let me know by 7:00 am eastern time : ) It based on the Magnificat and the reading from Philippians. If I were to ask you to think of one word to [...]
Daily Lectionary Readings and Devotion for Saturday, December 16, 2006
Here are the scripture readings for today. Just click on the links to read ‘em. Psalm 30, 32 – Morning Psalm 42, 43 – Evening Isaiah 8:1-15 2 Thessalonians 3:6-18 Luke 22:31-38 Today’s Featured Verses: Psalm 42:1-2 1As a deer longs for flowing streams, so my soul longs for you, O God. 2My soul thirsts for God, [...]
Philippians 4:4-7 (8-9)
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice. Let your gentleness be known to all people. The Lord is at hand. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication and with gratitude let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all [...]
Luke 3:7-18
Then he [John] said to the multitude that came out to be baptized by him, “You generation of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bear therefore fruits worthy of repentance. Moreover, do not begin to say to yourselves, `We have Abraham as our father.’ For I say unto you, God [...]
Pursuing Peace and Conflict
This week’s quote comes from the website Presbyterian Peacemaking Program. It is about peace and conflict, but also references the topic of my message for this upcoming Sunday: the Magnificat. Pursuing peace does not mean avoiding conflict. Indeed it may cause conflict with forces opposing peace. The “Magnificat” (Lk. 1:47-55) pictures the kind of peace [...]
Sermon and Worship Preparation Helps for Luke : The Magnificat
This week I have decided to do something a little different and more web 2.0. Instead of providing links to resources here with very little information attached, I have combed the web and placed clippings of relevant “finds” in one of my Google Notebooks. If you are interested in looking over the various items I [...]
Zephaniah 3:14-20
Sing aloud, O daughter Zion! Shout for joy, O Israel! Rejoice and exult with all your heart, O daughter Jerusalem! The Lord has withdrawn the judgments against you, he has cast out your enemies. The king of Israel, the Lord, is in your midst; you shall not see evil any longer. On that day [...]
Luke 1:39-55
And Mary arose in those days and traveled to the hill country in haste, to a town in Judah. And she entered the home of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. And it came to pass, that when Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the babe jumped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Spirit and she [...]
Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11
The spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the Eternal has anointed me to bring good tidings to the lowly, he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom to the captive, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; to proclaim the year of the [...]
