This preacher was grateful for the lectionary during September. I often argue with the choices of texts for particular Sundays. But when the events of September 11 replaced all other agendas, including my carefully planned preaching topics, I turned to the lectionary with gratitude.
"I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.” And so God declares he is writing himself into us, according to Jeremiah.