Sunday August 1 Pentecost 10
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Psalm 34
I will praise God because God rescued me when I was in trouble. God will always support those who live with integrity and the evil people will not get away with it forever.
2 Samuel 6: 12-23 What’s Samuel about?
David arranges to have the ark (which contained the actual 10 commandments) brought to Jerusalem. His first wife, Michal, the daughter of Saul, despises him for dancing naked in front of the ark, and in punishment for despising David and the ark, Michal has no children. Saul’s line is dying out. The consequences of not taking the ark seriously, and not respecting the deep commitment for justice and inclusion of all, means that we will not give birth to new life.
John 1: 43-51 What’s John about?
For the next six weeks on Sundays we will read from the Gospel of John.
One of John’s major themes is how we experience Jesus as the image of God. In this passage, the early disciples are attracted to Jesus by how deeply he knows and understands them, and this is especially true of people and places of no importance. Nathaniel cannot believe that someone bearing the image of God could come from an insignificant place such as Nazareth, but is convinced by how profoundly he himself, perhaps he felt himself a nobody, is known.
This week’s collect:
Almighty God,
your Son Jesus Christ fed the hungry
with the bread of his life
and the word of his kingdom.
Renew your people with your heavenly grace,
and in all our weakness
sustain us by your true and living bread,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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