Reflections for

24th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Sep 15, 2013

Jeremiah 4:11-12, 22-28; Psalm 14; (Exodus 32:7-14; Psalm 51:1-10;) 1 Timothy 1:12-17; Luke 15:1-10

Blogging Toward Sunday

Lost things and lions

Jeremiah 4:11-12, 22-28; 1 Timothy 1:12-17; Luke 15:1-10

Sep 11, 2007 by Jo Bailey Wells

All of the lectionary texts for this week address lost things. In Jeremiah, a people and a city; in 1 Timothy, a blasphemer and a Roman citizen; in Luke, a sheep and a coin.

Living by the Word

God's party time

Luke 15:1-10; 1 Timothy 1:12-17

Sep 04, 2007 by Mary Schertz

I can never read stories about Jesus and his closest conversation partners, the Pharisees, without remembering JOY with some bemusement.

Living by the Word

Clean sweep

Luke 15:1-10

Sep 07, 2004 by Jennifer Copeland

The best storytellers paint pictures with words, using them to fill our minds with vivid imagery. I remember reading the first Harry Potter novel to my first-grade son. Each time we completed a chapter and I turned the page to start a new one he would shift in my lap and look away from the book. Finally I asked him what was wrong. He replied, “I don’t want to see the drawing on the first page of the chapter because I want to think about what things look like all by myself.”

Living by the Word

Regeneration

Psalm 51

Mar 22, 2000 by Samuel Wells

The one who voices Psalm 51 is on the floor before God, utterly ashamed and as dust before glory: “My sin is ever before me.” The symptoms of sin are gradually displaced by the greater reality of God: “Against you, you alone, have I sinned.” The speaker does not look outside for an oppressor to blame, but inside, to the “inward being,” for a heart to be renewed.

Tags:

 

Revised Common Lectionary © 1992 the Consultation on Common Texts. Used by permission.