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Preaching Schedule for July and August, 2008
July 20, 2008 - Proper 11 - 10th Sunday After Pentecost
Ms. Pat Martin
Gen 28:10-19: Jacob flees Esau’s anger when he gains the birthright
by deceit. Jacob is given a vision by God.
Ps 139:1-12, 23-24: High Point of the Psalter; God, always present,
has perfect knowledge of the individual.
Rom 8:12-25: Whoever possesses the Spirit of Christ is guaranteed
redemption and is filled with hope.
Mt 13:24-30, 36-43: The Parable of the Weeds and Wheat sewn together
and Jesus explanation.
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July 27, 2008 - Proper 12
- 11th Sunday After
Pentecost
Dear God, What Next?!
Gen 29:15-28: Jacob is deceived into marrying Leah as well as
Rachel. What goes around comes around!
Ps 105:1-11, 45b: A Psalm recalling and praising God for his care
and salvation of Israel.
Rom 8:26-39: The Spirit prays for us. God works for us. Christ
insures that we cannot be defeated.
Mt 13:31-33,44-52: The Parables of the Mustard Seed & Yeast;
Parables of Treasures, Pearls, and Nets.
When we don’t know what we want, God does!
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August 3, 2008 - Proper 13 - 12th Sunday After Pentecost
Lord’s Supper
Gen 32:22-31: Jacob wrestles with God as he prepared to meet his
brother Esau and settle accounts.
Ps 17:1-7, 15: A Psalm of Protection; surrounded by lovers of the
world, one centers life on God.
Rom 9:1-5: Paul agonizes that his Jewish brothers and sisters, the
bearers of salvation, are missing salvation.
Mt 14:13-21: Jesus feeds five-thousand with five loaves, two fish,
and love lived our in sharing.
Wrestling with God over the salvation of the world and our own at
the Lord’s Table.
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August 10, 2008 - Proper 14 - Action 13th Sunday
After Pentecost
The Proof of Faith
Gen 37:1-4, 12-28: Joseph is envied by his brothers who plot to kill
him and finally sell him into slavery.
Ps 105:1-6, 16-22, 45b: (cont. July 27) God’s protection and use of
the Patriarchs to secure Israel’s salvation.
Rom 10:5-15: Whoever believes inwardly in God’s power and confesses
outwardly that Christ as Lord is saved.
Mt 14:22-33: Jesus walks on water. Do the disciples have faith
enough to follow.
In what do we but most of our faith—the tangible or intangible, the
seen or the unseen.
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August 17, 2008 - Proper 15
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14th Sunday After Pentecost
Pride & Jealousy, Faith & Faithfulness
Gen 45:1-15: Joseph and his brothers are re-united. The hand of God
is revealed amid jealousy and selfishness.
Ps 133: A Psalm praising brotherly love.
Rom 11:l-2a, 29-32: It almost seems that before you can be faithful
you must first be disobedient.
Mt 15:(10-20) 21-28: Things that are impure and defile and the
example of faith in the Canaanite women.
Worse than pride and jealousy over the tangible is pride and
jealousy over the intangible.
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August
24, 2008 - Proper 16 - 15th Sunday After
Pentecost
Revealing Faith Identities
Exodus 1:8-2:10: The Hebrews become slaves in Egypt. Moses is born
and adopted by Pharaoh’s daughter.
Ps 124: A Psalm of praise and thanksgiving for God’s rescue in the
past and hoped for in the future.
Rom 12:1-8: Do not confirm to the world but be transformed by Christ
and us your particular talent for Christ.
Mt 16:13-20: Jesus asks who people say he is. Peter declares his
belief in Jesus as the Messiah.
Who do we believe Jesus to be? Do we even know who we ourselves are?
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August 31, 2008 - Proper 17 - 16th Sunday
After Pentecost
An Uneasy Life of Challenge
Ex 3:1-15: Moses is very uneasy with his call by God to be God’s
instrument of salvation.
Ps 105:1-6, 23-26, 45c: (cont. 8/28 & 8/11) The salvation of Jacob
and Moses and the Exile.
Rom 12:9-21: The character of the faithful disciple is grounded in
Christ’s commandment of love.
Mt 16:21-28: Jesus speaks of his suffering and death and about the
cross of self-denial for all true disciples.
The Christian life of faith can be a very uneasy life when it
challenges life!
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September 7, 2008 - Proper 18 9/11 - 17th Sunday
After Pentecost
The Lord’s Supper
Exodus 12:1-14: Passover: The Angel of Death passes over people of
faith who make the appropriate sacrifice.
Romans 13:8-14: The Debt of Love, alone, shall stand. The Night is
over and the Day of Salvation is at hand.
Matthew 18:15-20: Where 2 or 3 are gathered, Christ is present. What
we bind is bound and loosed is loose.
The Angel of Death has nothing to collect
where the only debt is that of love.
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