Live the Word to Sunday

Live the Word to Sunday, a Lectionary Discussion

Preparing the way for the Lord to let God’s Word work in your life during the week to make your worship experience more meaningful. Sermons during Worship services are often based upon the Revised Common Lectionary. You are invited to log onto this site and Leave Comment on the readings presented with your questions and/or thoughts. If you have not already done so,you may register here.

May 20, 2012 Seventh Sunday of Easter

Through this Easter Season, 50 days leading to Pentecost, consider the wonder and joy and the confusion of the early Apostles. Our focus will move from the gospel of John back to the Gospel of Mark (occasionally Matthew or Luke). As you read the scriptures, consider how the Living Word speaks to you. Jesus is calling you to respond to his Word. Consider the hopeful questions: Where does my help come from? Where do I see God active in the world? How is God calling me to live my life? These scriptures point us toward these profound questions and to faith and to the saving grace of God. It is our hope and prayer that your worship experience be enhanced as you gain a greater sense that God is with you in Jesus Christ.

Acts 1:15-23 – In the first book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus did and taught from the beginning…

• The writer of acts starts as he did in his other book, the Gospel of Luke!
• And if you are wondering who is this fellow Theophilus, consider the greek meaning of the word…friend of God or beloved by God. It is you, of course!

Psalm 47 – Clap your hands, all you peoples…

• The psalm writer often offers us an attitude to try on, usually in a prayer form.
• So notice the emotion and excitement, in the form of a joy that can hardly be contained.
• See also Psalm 93

Ephesians 1:15-23 – I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love towards all the saints…

• Here we have a letter from the Apostle Paul to the young church in Ephesus, by many accounts in the middle of the first century AD.
• What does Paul say about what God has done through Jesus?

Luke 24:44-53 – Then he said to them, “These are my words thayt I spoke to you while I was still with you- that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”…

• And so the “great physician”, Luke has preserved for us these parting words from Jesus to his disciples.
• Notice what Jesus says about the Old Testament books of Moses and the prophets.
• What does Jesus say are two things that must be proclaimed and to whom Jesus instructs his disciples to deliver his good news?

May the Living Word dwell and lead your heart. May you hear and respond to the Word fully, by seeking to live as Jesus intended and coming to know him through his grace and healing power. May the power of Living Word bring the presence of God in you. To God be the Glory.