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August 9, 2003

Volume 120, Issue #16

Lectionary

Roll call: Ephesians 6:10-20; John 6:56-69

Jesus called the Twelve together and put the question to them with unsettling directness: Do you also wish to go away? I wonder sometimes how I would have responded to the question. Because at times the truth is I do wish to go away.

Don't be ridiculous: Ephesians 5:15-20; John 6:51-58

Thou shalt not be ridiculous. Paul says, "See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil." When Paul wrote that wonderful sentence he probably was sitting in an upper room in Athens. It was late at night, quiet, and all the fools were asleep.

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