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  Read: Psalm 79 O God, the nations have come into your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins (Psalm 79:1, NRSV) Psalm 79…

“The Road to Emmaus” Robert Zünd (1877)   Read: Luke 24:13-35 As they came near the village to which they were going, he walked ahead as if he were going…

  Introduction to the Tuned for Praise Series Leonard Bernstein once observed that “music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.” In this series, we will…

  Read: Luke 13:10-17   When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said, “Woman, you are set free from your ailment.” (Luke 13:12, NRSV). Why is it so…

  Read: Isaiah 58   If you refrain from trampling the sabbath, from pursuing your own interests on my holy day, if you call the sabbath a delight and the…

  Sabbath and Community   Read: Acts 16:11-15   On the sabbath day we went outside the gate by the river, where we supposed there was a place of prayer;…

  Read: Exodus 16   The house of Israel called it manna; it was like coriander seed, white, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey (Exodus…

  Read: Matthew 12:1-8   At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the sabbath; his disciples were hungry and they began to pluck heads of grain and to…

  Read: Deuteronomy 5:12-15   But the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God; you shall not do any work—you, or your son or your daughter, or…

Read: Genesis 2:1-3   So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all the work that he had done in creation (Gen. 2:3…