Lent and Beyond:
TODAY’S LECTIONARY!!! READ IT!!!

I gasped aloud when I read this morning’s lectionary last night in preparation for posting prayers or reflections here at L&B. Just astonishing. A case of the Word of God truly being living and active, and sharper than a double-edged sword. What timely and piercing words for us, the TEC House of Bishops, and the TEC as a whole.

Please read, reflect and pray through the entire lectionary. Here’s an easy link to read it all on one page

Over at TitusOneNine, Kendall Harmon has posted a selection of verses from today’s lectionary, all of which touch on relevant issues for the HoB. But the passage that struck me most last night and continues to be MUCH on my heart this morning is this one from 1 Corinthians 5:

6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? 7 Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8 Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

May the Lord begin in our hearts, helping us to expose and renounce sin, and may He work in the HoB and TEC as a whole to cleanse it of the old leaven and replace malice and evil with sincerity and truth. link