Posts Tagged "Jubilee Preaching Aids"

Formed for Jubilee: God’s Call to Justice and Restoration

August 28, 2025

Jubilee Preaching Aid for September 7, 2025Readings for the Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Year C)Jeremiah 18:1-11 Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18 Philemon 1:1-21 Luke 14:25-33The prophet Jeremiah is sent to a potter’s house, where he witnesses a powerful, simple image: a potter…

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“Where is the Lord?”

August 21, 2025

Jubilee Preaching Aid for August 31, 2025Readings for the Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost (Year C)Jeremiah 2:4-13 Psalm 81:1, 10-16 Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16 Luke 14:1, 7-14In 2022, the world’s global public debt reached 92 trillion $USD. 3.3 billion people lived in…

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Unshakeable Grace

August 19, 2025

Jubilee Preaching Aid for August 24, 2025Readings for the Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost (Year C)Jeremiah 1:4-10 Psalm 71:1-6 Hebrews 12:18-29 Luke 13:10-17Reflecting on the Revised Common Lectionary passages for the Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost in the context of Jubilee 2025,…

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Wahkotowin – We Are All Related

August 14, 2025

Jubilee Preaching Aid for August 17, 2025Readings for the Tenth Sunday after Pentecost (Year C)Isaiah 5:1-7 Psalm 80:1-2, 8-19 Hebrews 11:29-12:2 Luke 12:49-56This week’s Gospel, Luke 12:49-56, is always a challenging one. At first glance, a Jesus that is talking…

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The Place of Prayer

July 24, 2025

Jubilee Preaching Aid for July 27, 2025Readings for the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost (Year C)Hosea 1:2-10 Psalm 85 Colossians 2:6-15, (16-19) Luke 11:1-13What is the place of prayer in Jubilee work?As the burgeoning Jesus movement was beginning to take off,…

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A Green Olive Tree

July 15, 2025

Jubilee Preaching Aid for July 20, 2025Readings for the Sixth Sundayafter Pentecost (Year C)Amos 8:1-12 or Genesis 18:1-10a Psalm 52 or Psalm 15 Colossians 1:15-28 Luke 10:38-42“The idea of Jubilee is the climax of biblical law,” Dr. Silvia Keesmaat taught…

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Who is my Neighbour?

July 7, 2025

Jubilee Preaching Aid for July 13Readings for the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost (Year C)Amos 7:7-17 Psalm 82 Colossians 1:1-14 Luke 10:25-37In the introduction to the story of the Good Samaritan in the gospel of Luke, a lawyer asks Jesus, “What…

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A New Beginning

July 4, 2025

Jubilee Preaching Aid for July 6, 2025Readings for the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost (Year C)2 Kings 5:1-14 Psalm 30 Galatians 6:(1-6), 7-16 Luke 10:1-11, 16-20These passages clearly illustrate God’s “upside-down kingdom.” It is a phrase coined by Donald B. Kraybill…

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Dinner and the gift economy

June 16, 2025

Jubilee Preaching Aid for June 22, 2025Readings for the Second Sunday after Pentecost (Year C)1 Kings 19:1-4, (5-7), 8-15a Psalms 42 and 43 Galatians 3:23-29 Luke 8:26-39Metaphors and assumptions about debt pervade so much of our lives. Even beyond the…

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Jubilee Preaching Aids for June 15, 2025

June 14, 2025

Jubilee Preaching Aid for June 15, 2025Readings for Trinity Sunday (Year C)Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31 Psalm 8 Romans 5:1-5 John 16:12-15Psalm 8Psalm 8 opens and closes with wonder and awe at God’s majestic name: “O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your…

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