Pay Attention!
Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led his flock beyond the wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of a bush; he looked, and the bush was blazing, yet it was not consumed. Then Moses said, “I must turn aside and look at this great sight, and see why the bush is not burned up.” When the Lord saw that he had turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” Then he said, “Come no closer! Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.” He said further, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
Then the Lord said, “I have observed the misery of my people who are in Egypt; I have heard their cry on account of their taskmasters. Indeed, I know their sufferings, and I have come down to deliver them from the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the country of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. The cry of the Israelites has now come to me; I have also seen how the Egyptians oppress them. So come, I will send you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.”
But Moses said
to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and bring the Israelites out of
Egypt?” He said, “I will be with you; and this shall be the sign for you that
it is I who sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall
worship God on this mountain.” But Moses said to God, “If I come to the
Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,’ and
they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I say to them?” God said to Moses,
“I AM WHO I AM.” He said further, “Thus you shall say to the Israelites, ‘I AM
has sent me to you.’“ God also said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the
Israelites, ‘The Lord, the God of your
ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent
me to you’:
Exodus 3:1-15
Moses
and the Burning Bush
KNIPPERS,
Edward
2008
United
States
https://artandtheology.org/2016/01/24/the-art-of-contemplative-seeing-as-modeled-by-moses/
Edward
Knippers is, without a doubt, one of the founding fathers of contemporary
efforts to explore the relationship between Christian faith and the creation of
outstanding new visual art.
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The meaning of life is to find your gift.
The purpose of life is to give it away.
~
Pablo Picasso
The power for creating a better future
is contained in the present moment:
you create a good future by creating a good present.
~
Eckhart Tolle
Our
church had our outdoor worship last Sunday at the home of one of our members.
Pastor
Susan
Our
very small congregation … although many members were not
able
to attend.
I’m here to be me,
which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped.
~ Anne Lamott
September 3, 2017 Thirteenth
Sunday after Pentecost; Proper 17
Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and undergo great suffering at the hands of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, “God forbid it, Lord! This must never happen to you.” But he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; for you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things.”
Then Jesus told his disciples, “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it. For what will it profit them if they gain the whole world but forfeit their life? Or what will they give in return for their life?
“For the Son of Man is to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay everyone for what has been done. Truly I tell you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.”
Matthew 16:21-28
http://livingthelectionary.blogspot.com/2014/08/lectionary-22-matthew-1621-28.html
Burning
Bush
Clarence
Holbrook Carter
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/71/55/a6/7155a65ca777b807f09d387aea66dfb9.jpg
Exodus 3:1-15 with
Psalm 105:1-6, 23-26, 45c or
Jeremiah 15:15-21 with Psalm 26:1-8
Romans 12:9-21
Matthew 16:21-28
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