Posts with the tag “year-b”

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 16 (NRSV, The Message); Daniel 4:19-27 (NRSV, The Message); Colossians 2:6-15 (NRSV, The Message) At first Daniel, who had been renamed Belteshazzar in Babylon, was ups...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 26 (NRSV, The Message); Obadiah 6-10 (NRSV, The Message); Revelation 8:1-5 (NRSV, The Message) Compassion grows when we are able to know ourselves and one another on a ...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 26 (NRSV, The Message); Obadiah 1-9 (NRSV, The Message); Revelation 7:9-17 (NRSV, The Message) The word "kindness" originally developed from a root word that meant "fam...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 90:12-17 (NRSV, The Message); Deuteronomy 5:1-21 (NRSV, The Message); Hebrews 3:7-19 (NRSV, The Message) The word "kindness" originally developed from a root word that ...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 112 (NRSV, The Message); Jeremiah 3:6-14 (NRSV, The Message); Matthew 5:27-36 (NRSV, The Message) The "purple space" is where we cultivate kindness, compassion, humilit...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 112 (NRSV, The Message); Deuteronomy 24:1-5 (NRSV, The Message); 1 Corinthians 7:10-16 (NRSV, The Message) The Golden Rule in scripture challenges us to engage in conve...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 112 (NRSV, The Message); Deuteronomy 22:13-20 (NRSV, The Message); 1 Corinthians 7:1-9 (NRSV, The Message) The Golden Rule in scripture challenges us to engage in conve...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 11 (NRSV, The Message); 1 Kings 5:13-18 (NRSV, The Message); Ephesians 5:21-6:9 (NRSV, The Message) King Solomon conscripted forced labor out of all Israel; the levy nu...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 57 (NRSV, The Message); 2 Samuel 15:13-31 (NRSV, The Message); Ephesians 5:1-14 (NRSV, The Message) Watch what God does, and then you do it, like children who learn pro...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 51:1-12 (NRSV, The Message); Judges 6:1-10 (NRSV, The Message); Matthew 16:5-12 (NRSV, The Message) Haven’t you realized yet that bread isn’t the problem?Matthew 16:11 ...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 51:1-12 (NRSV, The Message); Joshua 23:1-16 (NRSV, The Message); 1 Corinthians 11:27-34 (NRSV, The Message) Joshua, speaking to the people of Israel:...and you have see...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 51:1-12 (NRSV, The Message); Exodus 32:19-26a (NRSV, The Message); 1 Corinthians 11:17-22 (NRSV, The Message) For, to begin with, when you come together as a church, I ...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 37:12-22 (NRSV, The Message); 2 Chronicles 9:29-31 (NRSV, The Message); Mark 6:35-44 (NRSV, The Message) Then he ordered them to get all the people to sit down in group...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 37:12-22 (NRSV, The Message); 2 Samuel 11:14-21 (NRSV, The Message); Philippians 4:10-20 (NRSV, The Message) I’ve learned by now to be quite content whatever my circums...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 85:8-13 (NRSV, The Message); Amos 4:6-13 (NRSV, The Message); Luke 1:57-80 (NRSV, The Message) Immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue freed, and he began to sp...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 85:8-13 (NRSV, The Message); Amos 3:1-12 (NRSV, The Message); Colossians 4:2-18 (NRSV, The Message) Thus says the Lord: As the shepherd rescues from the mouth of the li...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 21 (NRSV, The Message); 2 Samuel 5:11-16 (NRSV, The Message); James 5:7-12 (NRSV, The Message) In Jerusalem, after he came from Hebron, David took more concubines and w...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 21 (NRSV, The Message); 2 Samuel 5:1-10 (NRSV, The Message); 2 Corinthians 11:16-33 (NRSV, The Message) They had convinced themselves that David couldn’t break through....  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 48 (NRSV, The Message); 2 Samuel 5:1-5, 9-10 (NRSV, The Message); 2 Corinthians 12:2-10 (NRSV, The Message); Mark 6:1-13 (NRSV, The Message) David proceeded with a long...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 48 (NRSV, The Message); 2 Samuel 3:31-38 (NRSV, The Message); Matthew 8:18-22 (NRSV, The Message) ...everything the king did pleased all the people.2 Samuel 3:36 (NRSV)...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 48 (NRSV, The Message); 2 Samuel 3:1-12 (NRSV, The Message); 2 Samuel 3:1-12 (NRSV, The Message) The war between the house of Saul and the house of David dragged on and...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 48 (NRSV, The Message); 2 Samuel 2:1-11 (NRSV, The Message);  1 Corinthians 4:8-13 (NRSV, The Message) Then the people of Judah came, and there they anointed David king...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 88 (NRSV, The Message); 1 Chronicles 10:1-14 (NRSV, The Message); Mark 9:14-29 (NRSV, The Message) Jesus said to him, “If you are able!—All things can be done for the o...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 88 (NRSV, The Message); 1 Samuel 31:1-13 (NRSV, The Message); 2 Corinthians 9:1-5 (NRSV, The Message) The battle pressed hard upon Saul; the archers found him, and he w...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 88 (NRSV, The Message); 1 Samuel 23:14-18 (NRSV, The Message); 2 Corinthians 8:16-24 (NRSV, The Message) He said, “Don’t despair. My father, Saul, can’t lay a hand on y...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 130 (NRSV, The Message); 2 Samuel 1:1, 17-27 (NRSV, The Message); 2 Corinthians 8:7-15 (NRSV, The Message) Mark 5:21-43 (NRSV, The Message) I am distressed for you, my ...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 130 (NRSV, The Message); 1 Samuel 20:27-42 (NRSV, The Message); Luke 4:31-37 (NRSV, The Message) Jonathan said, “Go in peace! The two of us have vowed friendship in God...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 130 (NRSV, The Message); 1 Samuel 20:1-25 (NRSV, The Message); 2 Corinthians 8:1-7 (NRSV, The Message) When the two of them were out in the field, Jonathan said, “As Go...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 130 (NRSV, The Message); 1 Samuel 19:18-24 (NRSV, The Message); 2 Corinthians 7:2-16 (NRSV, The Message) As he headed out for Naioth in Ramah, the Spirit of God was on ...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 119:113-128 (NRSV, The Message); 1 Samuel 19:8-17 (NRSV, The Message); Mark 6:45-52 (NRSV, The Message) Again there was war...1 Samuel 19:8 In ancient story as now, it ...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 119:113-128 (NRSV, The Message); 1 Samuel 19:1-7 (NRSV, The Message); Acts 27:39-44 (NRSV, The Message) Saul called his son Jonathan together with his servants and orde...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 119:113-128 (NRSV, The Message); 1 Samuel 18:6-30 (NRSV, The Message) ; Acts 27:13-38 (NRSV, The Message) As Saul more and more realized that God was with David, and ho...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 9:9-20 (NRSV, The Message); 1 Samuel 17:1, 4-11, 19-23, 32-49 (NRSV, The Message); 2 Corinthians 6:1-13 (NRSV, The Message); Mark 4:35-41 (NRSV, The Message) David put ...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 9:9-20 (NRSV, The Message); 1 Samuel 17:55-18:5 (NRSV, The Message); Acts 21:1-16 (NRSV,  The Message) Once David finished speaking with Saul, the souls of Jonathan and...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 9:9-20 (NRSV, The Message); 1 Samuel 16:14-23 (NRSV, The Mesage); Acts 20:1-16 (NRSV, The Message) After that, whenever the bad depression from God tormented Saul, Davi...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 53 (NRSV, The Message); 1 Samuel 15:24-31 (NRSV, The Message); Luke 6:43-45 (NRSV, The Message) Then Saul said, “I have sinned; yet honor me now before the elders of my...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 53 (NRSV, The Message); 1 Samuel 15:10-23 (NRSV, The Message); Revelation 21:22-22:5 (NRSV, The Message) "Samuel was angry; and he cried out to the Lord all night."1 Sa...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 47 (NRSV, The Message); Deuteronomy 34:1-7 (NRSV, The Message); John 16:4-11 (NRSV, The Message) The Israelites wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days; then t...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 47 (NRSV, The Message); Exodus 24:15-18 (NRSV, The Message); Revelation 1:9-18 (NRSV, The Message) Now the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a devouring fire...  Read More

Daily Lectionary Reading: Psalm 93 (NRSV, The Message); Acts 1:1-11 (NRSV, The Message); Ephesians 1:15-23 (NRSV, The Message); Luke 24:44-53 (NRSV, The Message) But you will receive power...Acts 1:8 ...  Read More