Category Archives: Ordinary Time

Note from CM: Updated post to use Kingdom NT translation. Thanks, Charles! Wednesdays with James Lesson Eight: Taking Responsibility, Receiving from God Today we will bite off a bit bigger chunk of the Epistle of James, looking at James 1:12-27. 12 God’s blessing on the man who endures testing! When he has passed the test, heContinue reading “Wednesdays with James: Lesson Eight”

He lifted up his eyes and looked at his disciples, and said: “Blessings on the poor: God’s kingdom belongs to you!” “…But woe betide you rich: you’ve had your comfort!” • Luke 6:20, 24 (KNT) • • • Wednesdays with James Lesson Seven: The Great Reversal Today, we look at the third and final of the openingContinue reading “Wednesdays with James: Lesson Seven”

So I say to you, Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who knocks, the door will be opened. Is there anyone among you who, if your child asks for aContinue reading “Wednesdays with James: Lesson Six”

Blessings on people who are persecuted because of God’s way! The kingdom of heaven belongs to you. Blessings on you, when people slander you and persecute you, and say all kinds of wicked things about you falsely because of me! Celebrate and rejoice: there’s a great reward for you in heaven. That’s how they persecutedContinue reading “Wednesdays with James: Lesson Five”

Ordinary Time provides an opportunity for those who follow the liturgical year to take a different direction in their approach to the Scriptures. In Ordinary Time, we go week by week, examining how we might live the life we share together in Christ. Ordinary Time is therefore a good season for the Church to study books of the Bible, inContinue reading “Wednesdays with James: Lesson Four”

Ordinary Time provides an opportunity for those who follow the liturgical year to take a different direction in their approach to the Scriptures. In Ordinary Time, we go week by week, examining how we might live the life we share together in Christ. Ordinary Time is therefore a good season for the Church to study books of the Bible, inContinue reading “Wednesdays with James: Lesson Three”

Ordinary Time provides an opportunity for those who follow the liturgical year to take a different direction in their approach to the Scriptures. In Ordinary Time, we go week by week, examining how we might live the life we share together in Christ. Ordinary Time is therefore a good season for the Church to study books of the Bible, inContinue reading “Wednesdays with James: Lesson Two”

Wednesdays with James Lesson One: Background and Big Picture Ordinary Time provides an opportunity for those who follow the liturgical year to take a different direction in their approach to the Scriptures. From Advent to Pentecost, the Church follows the Gospels as they depict the earthly career of Jesus the Messiah, the story of salvation. In theContinue reading “Wednesdays with James: Lesson One”