Look: Adam and Eve, Brian Kershisnik - Source

Listen: His Banner Over Me, Christy Nockels - Lyrics | Spotify | YouTube

Read: (Sunday) Deuteronomy 8:1-10; Psalm 34:1-7; Psalm 34:8-15; Psalm 34:16-22; Ephesians 4:17-5:2; John 6:37-51

(Through the week) Psalm 128; Song of Solomon; Ecclesiastes 9:7-10; Matthew 6:25-33; 1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Pray: Book of Common Prayer, Collect for the Eleventh Week After Pentecost

Do: This week, consider how the expression of God’s loving hospitality informs how we perceive and care for our own bodies. We care for others as we care for ourselves - our actual living, breathing, needing bodies.

1. As you commune with God, consider the following questions:

What is your attitude toward your own body with its needs and pleasures?

Do you need to hear God’s permission to care for and enjoy your body?

Do you respond to your own body with indifference or neglect - giving your time, energy, and money toward habits of your mind or emotional needs only? Or have you noticed that your response to your body is to anxious and indulgent - overspending time, energy, and money?

2. Register for the second virtual retreat in the Rhythms of Grace Retreat Series for Ordinary Time.

On August 26, I’m hosting Love My Neighbor & Myself. You can read all of the details and register at this link.

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Look: Dinner Party, Ryan Kapp - Source

Listen: Psalm 23, Zach Winters - Lyrics | Spotify | YouTube

Read: (Sunday) Exodus 16:2-4; Exodus 16:5-8; Exodus 16:9-15; Psalm 78:1-13; Psalm 78:14-26; Ephesians 4:1-16; John 6:24-35

(Through the week) Genesis 18:1-17; Deuteronomy 10:12-22; Psalm 23; Ruth 2; 4:13-22; Matthew 25:31-46; Luke 14:1-14; 3 John

Pray: Book of Common Prayer, Collect for the Ninth Week After Pentecost

Do: This week, consider how the expression of God’s love flows to us and through us to our neighbors in the form of hospitality. First God sets a table for us and then instructs us to invite others to the table. As you commune with God, consider the following questions:

Who do you know that could benefit from the kind of hospitality that reflects the character of God?

What plans could you make this week to show such hospitality to someone in the coming days or weeks?

1. Register for the second virtual retreat in the Rhythms of Grace Retreat Series for Ordinary Time.

   On August 26, I’m hosting Love My Neighbor & Myself. You can read all of the details and register at this link.

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Look: Life in Community, Aidan Hart with contributions from Donald Jackson for The Saint John’s Bible - Source (Image used from this article: The Art of The Saint John’s Bible)

Listen: The Church’s One Foundation, Indelible Grace, feat. Brian Moss - Text | Spotify | YouTube

Read: (Sunday) 2 Kings 2:1-15; Psalm 114; Ephesians 3:1-7; Ephesians 3:8-21; Mark 6:45-52

(Through the week) Psalm 67; Genesis 12:1-9; Luke 10:1-20; Acts 11:19-30; 13:1-3; 2 Corinthians 8-9; Galatians 1:11-2:10

Pray: Book of Common Prayer, Collect for the Ninth Week After Pentecost

Do: In the safety of God’s presence, ask the Spirit to help you prayerfully sit with questions about what it means to join Christ in his giving and sending community. Ask God’s help to give something of yourself this week to one of the partners or people groups highlighted in your time of prayer.

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Look: Voici l’homme!, 2019 by Marc Padeu after Caravaggio’s “Ecce homo” - Source 1 Source 2

Read Victoria Elizabeth Jones’ description of Padeau’s work here.

Listen: Love is the Rebel Song by Jon Foreman - Spotify | YouTube w/ lyrics

Read: (Sunday) Isaiah 57:14-21; Psalm 22:23-31; Ephesians 2:11-22; Mark 6:30-44

(Through the week) Psalm 105; 1 Kings 18; Luke 9:7-9; Luke 22:66-23:25; Acts 12; Acts 21:22-26:32

Pray: Book of Common Prayer, Collect for the Eighth Week After Pentecost

Do: In the safety of God’s presence, ask the Spirit to help you prayerfully sit with questions about what it means to join Christ in his confronting the (false) religious and political powers of this world.

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Look: Forgive Thy Other, Scott Erickson - Source

Listen: Brother, Good Shepherd Collective, feat. Propaganda, Liz Vice, Charles Jones & Dee Wilson - Lyrics | Spotify | YouTube

Read: (Sunday) Amos 7:7-15; Psalm 85; Ephesians 1:1-14; Ephesians 1:15-23; Mark 6:7-13

(Through the week) Psalm 133; Jonah 1-4; Luke 7:1-10; Acts 10:1-11:18; Colossians 3:1-17; Philemon

Pray: Book of Common Prayer, Collect for the Seventh Week After Pentecost

Do: In the safety of God’s presence, ask the Spirit to help you prayerfully sit with questions about what it means to join Christ in his suffering and his serving community

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Look: La Mort, Arcabas - Source

Listen: I Love You Lord (Psalm 116), Mission House, feat. Jess Ray, Taylor Leonhardt, Andrew & Skye Peterson - Lyrics | Spotify | YouTube

Read: (Sunday) Ezekiel 2:1-7; Psalm 123; 2 Corinthians 12:2-10; Mark 6:1-6

(Through the week) Psalm 116; 1 Kings 17:17-24; Luke 13:14-17; Acts 8:4-9:43; Acts 28:1-10

Pray: Book of Common Prayer, Collect for the Sixth Week After Pentecost

Do: In the safety of God’s presence, ask the Spirit to help you listen to specific invitations to join Jesus in God’s mission to set people free.

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Look: Mother Teresa, M. F. Husain - Source

Listen: Little Things With Great Love, The Porter’s Gate, feat. Madison Cunningham - Lyrics | Spotify | YouTube

Read: (Sunday) Deuteronomy 15:7-11; Psalm 112; 2 Corinthians 8:1-15; Mark 5:22-43

(The rest of the week) Psalm 11; 1 Kings 17:8-16; Luke 21:12-19; Acts 6:1-8:3; 1 Peter 4:7-19

Pray: Book of Common Prayer, Collect for the Fifth Week After Pentecost

Do: In the safety of God’s presence, ask the Spirit to help you prayerfully sit with questions about what it means to join Christ in his suffering and his serving community + register for this Thursday’s Worship in the World & Church retreat

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