2023 Jubilee Lectionary: The Unsettling Realm of God

Jesus takes the Resistance beyond prophecy, beyond songs of hope and lamentation, beyond satire and mockery, and beyond apocalyptic visions to declare the inauguration of a new kingdom. With his birth, teachings, death, and resurrection, Jesus has started a revolution. It just doesn’t look the way anyone expects.

Rachel Held Evans, Inspired, p. 140

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2023 Recommitment Lectionary: Seeking God in All This

Revised Common Lectionary

Recommitment 2023

My starting point is that we’re already there. We cannot attain the presence of God because we’re already totally in the presence of God. What’s absent is awareness. Little do we realize that God is maintaining us in existence with every breath we take. As we take another it means that God is choosing us now and now and now. We have nothing to attain or even learn. We do, however, need to unlearn some things. 

Richard Rohr, Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer, p 27-28

Where is God in All This?

September 10
Exodus 12:1-14
Psalm 149
Romans 13:8-14
Matthew 18:15-20
October 8
Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20
Psalm 19
Philippians 3:4b-14
Matthew 21:33-46
September 17
Exodus 14:19-31
Psalm 114
Romans 14:1-12
Matthew 18:21-3528
October 15
Recommitment Sunday
Exodus 32:1-14
Psalm 106:1-6, 19-23
Philippians 4:1-9
Matthew 22:1-14
September 24
Exodus 16:2-15
Psalm 105:1-6, 37-45
Philippians 1:21-30
Matthew 20:1-16
October 22
JUBILEE
Exodus 33:12-23
Psalm 99
1 Thessalonians 1:1-10
Matthew 22:15-22
October 1
Exodus 17:1-7
Psalm 78:1-4, 12-16
Philippians 2:1-13
Matthew 21:23-32

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