Week 23 of Ordinary Time Beginning Sunday, Oct. 31, 2010 The theme for this week in the church calendar is culture. I’m indebted for my remarks on the various passages traditionally associated with this week to Bobby Gross in Living the Christian Year (IVP, 2009). Our Old Testament passages begin with Psalm 98, which calls [...] Read more »
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Church Year Calendar: Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost
SaturdayOct 23,2010
by John Smith
Week 21 of Ordinary Time Beginning Sunday, Oct. 17, 2010 The theme for the church calendar this week is society, an intentional result of God’s command to our race to be fruitful and multiply and an integral part of the created order both now and in the age to come. The scriptures given below [...] Read more »
Church Year Calendar: Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost
SaturdayOct 23,2010
by John Smith
Week 22 of Ordinary Time Beginning Sunday, Oct. 24, 2010 One early evening this week, I walked outside shortly before sunset and was simply overwhelmed by the beauty of the sky. It was a perfect fall evening and displayed the subtle shift of light that marks fall (and all the seasons) perfectly. My thought was [...] Read more »
Church Year Calendar: Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
SaturdayOct 9,2010
by John Smith
Week 20 of Ordinary Time Beginning Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010 The theme for this week in the church calendar is the Sabbath. The Sabbath is grounded in the work of creation itself, where God rested on the seventh day after the six days of creation in calling all things into being out of nothing by [...] Read more »
Church Year Calendar: Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost
SaturdayOct 2,2010
by John Smith
Week 18 of Ordinary Time Beginning Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010 Our daily bread is the theme of this week’s scripture readings traditionally associated with the church calendar. Exodus 16 tells how God provided manna from heaven during Israel’s journey through the wilderness in the Exodus. As if there were any doubt about the supernatural origin [...] Read more »
Church Year Calendar: Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost
SaturdaySep 25,2010
by John Smith
Church Year Calendar: Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost Week 18 of Ordinary Time Beginning Sunday, Sep. 26, 2010 The theme for this week in the church year is vocation, the idea that we are called to live our lives in their totality, including our lives at work in obedience to God and to his glory. Vocation [...] Read more »
Church Year Calendar: Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
SaturdaySep 18,2010
by John Smith
Week 17 of Ordinary Time Beginning Sunday, Sep. 19, 2010 The theme for this week in the church year is our souls, and a more important concern for us other than glory of God himself cannot be imagined. Yet, in the business of life with its ups and downs, its joy and tears, its affections [...] Read more »
Church Year Calendar: Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
SaturdaySep 11,2010
by John Smith
Week 16 of Ordinary Time Beginning Sunday, Sep. 12, 2010 The theme for this week in the church year is the utterly crucial subject of forgiveness. Forgiveness and the need for forgiveness is an absolute in both our relationship to God and to other human beings. Further, it is often true that the closer the [...] Read more »
Church Year Calendar: Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Week 15 of Ordinary Time, Sunday, Sep. 5, 2010)
FridaySep 3,2010
by John Smith
The theme of this week in the church calendar is focused on our hearts. One of the Old Testament passages that has been associated with this week has been Psalm 101, a song of praise followed by a commitment on the part of the Psalmist to lead a blameless life before God and towards other [...] Read more »
Church Year Calendar: Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Week 13 of Ordinary Time, Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010)
SaturdayAug 28,2010
by John Smith
The living God is holy is his very being and his character; that holiness means that in relation to his creatures his actions are inherently just. Anything else would be a denial of his very person, and his justice is the theme of this week in the church year calendar. Two Psalms that focus on [...] Read more »