Today we have another reading from the longest Psalm in the Bible. It is mostly an extended prayer.
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Our text is the story of Mary and Martha from the tenth chapter of Luke. Jesus is visiting in the home of a woman named Martha and her sister Mary.
Today we have a reading from the longest Psalm, and that reading begins with perhaps the best-known verse in this Psalm: “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.”
The affirmation of faith of the United Church of Canada, which we recite most Sundays in our worship, says, “We are called to be the church: to celebrate God’s presence, to love and serve others, to seek justice and resist evil, to proclaim Jesus, crucified and risen, our judge and our hope.”
There’s a lesson for Christians today in this story of the first healing after the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus.
Of all the people on the pages of the Bible, it was the Apostle Paul who knew what it was to face the harshness of life.
As I write this, I’m remembering the construction of the children’s wing expansion at our church.
Psalm 119, one of several acrostic poems found in the Bible, has 176 verses, making it the longest Psalm as well as the longest chapter in the Bible.
The writer of Ephesians is concerned about the sin that is probably the easiest to fall into and the sin that can have the gravest consequences. It is the wrong and the hurt that is done by the words that we say.
Our brief scripture reading today comes from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, and it involves the subject of money — a subject Jesus talked about a lot.