Lectionary: Series C (659)
  1. God will undo the curse and release His creation through the resurrection. In Christ, it’s already taken place. We’re next.
  2. So, we pray. Not just in times of need, but we pray at all times. Because this is part of what it means to be saved.
  3. There were no discussions, no committee meetings, no master planning, he and his group simply went to Macedonia.
  4. What you are doing for your hearers is sparking their imagination to live in, to dwell in, the images you are conjuring in their mind’s eye.
  5. Jesus opens for us a way to walk through suffering and to sing our song of salvation as we talk to our heavenly Father.
  6. In the Old Testament all the world is narrowed down to the people of Israel, which is eventually narrowed down to One—Jesus! Jesus is Israel reduced to one in order that all the world might be saved through Him.
  7. What we have in our reading is a picture of how God deals with a lack of understanding.
  8. This voice of Jesus is the same voice which now beckons us to see anew how God in Christ is at work anywhere and everywhere.
  9. Perhaps the question that needs answering is, “How?” How can we run the race? How can we be good shepherds of the flock? How can we live and walk as part of the flock?
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