Reflections for Sunday 23rd January 2022 from Jacquie Brown
The Third Sunday of Epiphany – Sunday 23rd January 2022
Collect:
Almighty God, whose Son revealed in signs and miracles the wonder of your saving presence: renew your people with your heavenly grace, and in all our weakness sustain us by your mighty power; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen
Readings
Old Testament: Nehemiah 8. 1-3, 5-6, 8-10;
Psalm 19;
New Testament: 1 Corinthians 12 12-31a;
Gospel: Luke 4.14-21.
Reflection on Luke 4 14-21:
Jesus Makes an Announcement
How many of you read a newspaper? The Classified Adverts can tell others about an important event in their life which can remind us of today’s gospel reading. In the lesson today, Jesus has an important announcement to make. The only difference is that in Jesus' day there were no newspapers to make announcements. So, Jesus stood up in his church and made his announcement.
The local boy from down-town Nazareth has returned. He’d been hitting the headlines of local gossip since he’d encountered his cousin John busy baptising the repentant in the River Jordan; the little altercation between the two and the ensuing direct message from God, had caused quite a stir, which at least had filled the ‘gossip columns’ when he vanished completely for more than a month. But, he had returned, the same, but different. The announcement that Jesus was to make was very important. He was getting ready to teach and preach God's message. He decided to begin in his hometown of Nazareth, where he grew up, but was no longer helping in his father’s carpentry workshop. Here's how he made his announcement. He went to his synagogue. There he was invited to read the Bible lesson. It was from the Book of Isaiah. Jesus read how God's special messenger would rescue people who were in trouble. Everyone listening to Jesus was certain that only God could do what Jesus' Bible reading said.
When Jesus had finished his reading he told everyone that the words he just read were about him. That was the announcement Jesus made. Jesus told people that he was the one whom God sent.
The next time you hear an announcement or see one on TV or in a newspaper think of Jesus. He made an important announcement in church. He announced that he was the one sent from God to save us all.
A Prayer:
Heavenly Father
Teach me to hear to the beat of your heart,
Teach me to see your work and work with you
Teach me to walk in step, neither in front nor behind
But always keeping pace with you
Amen
Taken from: https://www.sermonsuite.com/free-access/i-have-announcement
Collect:
Almighty God, whose Son revealed in signs and miracles the wonder of your saving presence: renew your people with your heavenly grace, and in all our weakness sustain us by your mighty power; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen
Readings
Old Testament: Nehemiah 8. 1-3, 5-6, 8-10;
Psalm 19;
New Testament: 1 Corinthians 12 12-31a;
Gospel: Luke 4.14-21.
Reflection on Luke 4 14-21:
Jesus Makes an Announcement
How many of you read a newspaper? The Classified Adverts can tell others about an important event in their life which can remind us of today’s gospel reading. In the lesson today, Jesus has an important announcement to make. The only difference is that in Jesus' day there were no newspapers to make announcements. So, Jesus stood up in his church and made his announcement.
The local boy from down-town Nazareth has returned. He’d been hitting the headlines of local gossip since he’d encountered his cousin John busy baptising the repentant in the River Jordan; the little altercation between the two and the ensuing direct message from God, had caused quite a stir, which at least had filled the ‘gossip columns’ when he vanished completely for more than a month. But, he had returned, the same, but different. The announcement that Jesus was to make was very important. He was getting ready to teach and preach God's message. He decided to begin in his hometown of Nazareth, where he grew up, but was no longer helping in his father’s carpentry workshop. Here's how he made his announcement. He went to his synagogue. There he was invited to read the Bible lesson. It was from the Book of Isaiah. Jesus read how God's special messenger would rescue people who were in trouble. Everyone listening to Jesus was certain that only God could do what Jesus' Bible reading said.
When Jesus had finished his reading he told everyone that the words he just read were about him. That was the announcement Jesus made. Jesus told people that he was the one whom God sent.
The next time you hear an announcement or see one on TV or in a newspaper think of Jesus. He made an important announcement in church. He announced that he was the one sent from God to save us all.
A Prayer:
Heavenly Father
Teach me to hear to the beat of your heart,
Teach me to see your work and work with you
Teach me to walk in step, neither in front nor behind
But always keeping pace with you
Amen
Taken from: https://www.sermonsuite.com/free-access/i-have-announcement
