Saturday September 14 Pentecost 16
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Psalm 138
I praise God because God helped me, even though I am one of the lowly.
Psalm 139
God, you know everything about me, even when I was still in my mother’s womb, and I am amazed at your knowledge. Help me to remove all evil from the world.
Job 38.1-17 What’s Job about?
God responds to Job with a long description of how God made the world and Job didn’t. Job has been asking the challenging questions, now God asks Job challenging questions.
John 11.45-54 What’s John about?
Because Jesus is operating outside the religious organization the leaders believe he is a cheater and does these miracles, such as raising Lazarus from the dead, by trickery. Nevertheless the High Priest is inspired by God, without his knowing it, to accurately state who Jesus is. Because their power is threatened they cannot see that God’s kingdom is coming among them, and they resolve to kill him. Jesus returns to the wilderness, where he was baptized, and from where he will shortly enter Jerusalem at Passover and be executed.
This week’s collect:
Stir up, O Lord,
the wills of your faithful people,
that richly bearing the fruit of good works,
we may by you be richly rewarded;
through Jesus Christ our Lord,
who is alive and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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