Daily Word, Pentecost 15A

Daily Word, Pentecost 15A

Daily Bible Readings for the Week of the Fifteenth Sunday of Pentecost, Year A

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Join us for Morning Prayer in the chapel, Monday through Friday* at 8:30am, where we read and discuss these Scriptures and pray together. We do the same during Vespers in the parsonage Sunday evenings at 6pm. Join us! The parsonage is across the street from the church. 

Our readings for the week of the Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost are listed below. Each verse is linked and will open to Biblia so you may read online. Click the link to read online or read in your Bible. The additional reading each day speaks to the common conversation between the three readings.

Daily Psalm readings are found here.

Sunday: Job 4:1–6, 12–21; Revelation 4:1–11; Mark 6:1–6

The world has no inclination to accept Christ in the character he has shown himself on the cross and in his unattractive earthly form. He does not bring the things it desires — worldly power, honor and riches, and praise and approval of its own wisdom, its holiness etc....

Hence, it is believed only by a few simple people, who are not offended at the unattractive figure of the cross of Christ, hidden under which are comfort, strength, victory, life and salvation, treasures which are theirs through faith. 

Martin Luther, “Pentecost, or Festival of the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit (Third Sermon. John 14:23–31),” in Luther’s Church Postil: Gospels: Pentecost or Missionary Sermons, ed. and trans. John Nicholas Lenker, vol. III, The Precious and Sacred Writings of Martin Luther (Minneapolis, MN: Lutherans in All Lands Co., 1907), 326.

Monday: Job 4:1; 5:1–11, 17–21, 26–27; Acts 9:19b–31; John 6:52–59

God does not impart His grace in this life all at once, so that it is straightway, absolute, and finished, so that God has nothing more to confer, man nothing more to receive; but God is always giving and man is always receiving, so as ever to be more closely and perfectly joined to Christ, to hold more and more firmly the pardon of sins; so that the benefits of redemption, which have been begun in us, ‘may be preserved, strengthened, and increased.

Charles P. Krauth, The Conservative Reformation and Its Theology: As Represented in the Augsburg Confession, and in the History and Literature of the Evangelical Lutheran Church (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1875), 827.

Tuesday: Job 6:1–4, 8–15, 21; Acts 9:32–43; John 6:60–71

But why does God impose upon believers of this class, and upon them only, such special trials? Because they, too, need to be put to the test by terrors and distress, to prove whether they really believe and love. It is particularly necessary for them to be guarded against presumption, and frequently most profoundly humiliated, in order that, possessing as they do a peculiar measure of divine grace and blessing, they may not again learn to depend upon themselves. There must yet be thoroughly slain within them their own righteousness, the flesh, and their own reason. They must constantly learn anew and more thoroughly to seek real comfort only in Christ, His Word and the sacraments: and through the temptations which they thus endure God will grant them the greater courage and strength.

Julius Köstlin, The Theology of Luther in Its Historical Development and Inner Harmony, trans. Charles E. Hay, vol. 2 (Philadelphia: Lutheran Publication Society, 1897), 459.

Wednesday: Job 6:1; 7:1–21; Acts 10:1–16; John 7:1–13

Luther said that “God makes [men] sinners, unrighteous men and fools,” i. e., He leads them to become to their own view what they are before Him; He wants to kill — that is, the old Adam. To this work of God belong also the sufferings and death of Christ, and the sufferings that are in Christ. But this is nevertheless, says he, only the “strange work (opus alienum) of God. His own work (opus proprium) is the raising of Christ from the dead, justification in the spirit, making alive — in a word, the working of peace, mercy, truth, joy and salvation.

Charles E. Hay, “Translator’s Preface,” in The Theology of Luther in Its Historical Development and Inner Harmony, trans. Charles E. Hay, vol. 1 (Philadelphia: Lutheran Publication Society, 1897), 143.

Thursday: Job 8:1–10, 20–22; Acts 10:17–33; John 7:14–36

The Spirit operates through the Word, whether it be the written, the preached, the sacramental, or the Word in conversation or reflection. The ordinary operations of the Holy Spirit are through the Word. Those who are renewed and sanctified by the Holy Spirit are those who have been influenced by this regenerating and sanctifying Word.

G. H. Gerberding, The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church (Philadelphia, PA: Lutheran Publication Society, 1887), 127.

Friday: Job 9:1–15, 32–35; Acts 10:34–48; John 7:37–52

The human heart longs after human sympathy, and the consciences of guilty men make them wish for a human mediator between themselves and the God they shrink from....

The only cure for it all is to know that Christ the divine was truly human, that Mary was no more truly human than was Jesus, the Son of Mary. Truly divine and also truly human, he is able to sympathize with us in our infirmities, to lay a hand of love and pity upon our poor sinful heads, and yet, with the other hand, to lay hold upon the very pillars of God’s throne, and to be our Advocate with the Father, our one Mediator,—all the Mediator we need or should desire.

John Albert Broadus, Sermons and Addresses, 2nd ed. (Baltimore: H. M. Wharton & Co., 1887), 137-138.

Saturday: Job 9:1; 10:1–9, 16–22; Acts 11:1–18; John 8:12–20

...Luther held that the Christian is personally united with Christ: “Thou hast taken mine, and hast given me thine. Thou didst become what thou wast not and didst make me what I was not.” Faith unites Christ and the believer in a spiritual union which is more intimate than that of flesh and blood, a kind of communicatio idiomatum, in which there is a reciprocal giving and taking. Christ gives me his righteousness, and takes the guilt of my sin and makes me a child of God: “In Christ and with Christ I have at once the heart and will of the Father, the person in whom the Father dwells bodily, so that in Christ and through Christ, I am one thing with the Father.” Christ became incarnate by the Virgin Mary that he might draw us who believe on the Father, as he is in the Father: “This connection has he established between himself and us and the Father, and in this he embraces us, so that we are now in him, and he in us, as he is in the Father and the Father in us. By this union and communion our sin and death are removed, and we have life and salvation instead.” “What he is by nature that we become by grace: The sons of God, copartners, partakers of the divine nature; and thus by faith in him the incarnation is representatively continued.”

James W. Richard, The Confessional History of the Lutheran Church (Philadelphia: Lutheran Publication Society, 1909), 373–374.

*We do not meet on Saturdays. However, we meet on Sundays at 6pm in the parsonage (directly across the street) at 6pm to discuss the readings. Join us!

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