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Bread for the Journey, Wednesday in the second week in Lent

On: March 3, 2021

Tagged: gospel of John, Jesus the healer, sabbath

From the Daily Lectionary for Wednesday in the Second Week of Lent John 5:1-18 After this there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called in Hebrew Beth-zatha, which has five porticoes. In these lay many invalids—blind,Read More →

Bread for the Journey, Wednesday in the Twenty-Second Week after Pentecost

On: November 4, 2020

Tagged: hope, Jesus the healer, love, sabbath

From the Daily Lectionary for Wednesday in the Twenty-Second Week after Pentecost Luke 13:10-17 Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. And just then there appeared a woman with a spirit that had crippled her for eighteen years. She was bent over and was quite unableRead More →

Bread for the Journey, Thursday in the Seventeenth Week after Pentecost

On: October 1, 2020

Tagged: corruption, empire, healing, institutions, Jesus the healer, letter of the law, sabbath, spirit of the law

From the Daily Lectionary for Thursday in the Seventeenth Week after Pentecost Luke 6:1-11 One Sabbath while Jesus was going through the cornfields, his disciples plucked some heads of grain, rubbed them in their hands, and ate them. But some of the Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what isRead More →

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