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| The Prophet Jeremiah. Glass painting from the Choir of the Bebenhausen Monastery, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, ca. 1335. |
August 25, 2013
Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Jeremiah 1:4-10: Jeremiah's calling: "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you . . . you shall go to all to whom I send you . . . . to pluck up and to pull down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant."
Psalm 71:1-6 (UMH 794): This psalm picks up on the fortress and youth motifs of the reading from Jeremiah.
Hebrews 12:18-29: Worship in the "unshakable" kingdom we have inherited is not "hands off" or "back away," but come in and join the fellowship of angels, martyrs, prophets, God the judge of all, and Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit. And it is not just a symbolic material representation of spiritual realities, but an invitation to encounter those very realities directly, ourselves. How can we but express thanksgiving, with reverence and awe, when we worship?
Luke 13:10-17: Jesus heals a woman on the sabbath who had been crippled for eighteen years and confronts an outraged leader of the synagogue.
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