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The A Plain Account Podcast A Plain Account
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Each week we dig into the one of lectionary passages for exegesis and homiletics
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Easter 7C | Acts 16:16-34
Our texts this week are here. Reader’s theatre of Acts 16.
Learn more about The New Jim Crow and Michelle Alexander’s work on her TEDxTalk or this interview with Krista Tippett
Our prayer for this week – “A blessing for a prisoner” from To Bless The Space Between Us by John O’Donohue
Other resources on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music.
We’ll be spending the Easter season in the book of Acts. Between Megan & Alicia, we will be reading from several Acts commentaries. Commentaries mentioned –
Acts by Willie Jennings (Belief: A Theological Commentary on the Bible)
The NBBC Acts commentary by Richard P Thompson
Acts For Everyone by N T Wright
Acts by Beverly Gaventa. (Abingdon New Testament Commentaries)
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Easter 6C | Acts 16:9-15
Our texts this week are here
Our prayer for this week Every Moment Holy
A liturgy for those who employ others
A liturgy for those who feel awkward in social gatherings
"Lydia's faith becomes immediately active: she is baptized along with her whole household, and she opens her home. Social and cultural barriers crumble, and this corner of the empire is beginning to be changed by God's grace." – Brian Peterson, Preaching This Week, WorkingPreacher.org, 2013.
We’ll be spending the Easter season in the book of Acts. Between Megan & Alicia, we will be reading from several Acts commentaries. Commentaries mentioned –
Acts by Willie Jennings (Belief: A Theological Commentary on the Bible)
The NBBC Acts commentary by Richard P Thompson
Acts For Everyone by N T Wright
Acts by Beverly Gaventa. (Abingdon New Testament Commentaries)
Other resources on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music. -
Easter 5C | Acts 11:1-18
Our texts this week are here
Our prayer for this week: Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community
We’ll be spending the Easter season in the book of Acts. Between Megan & Alicia, we will be reading from several Acts commentaries. Commentaries mentioned –
Acts by Willie Jennings (Belief: A Theological Commentary on the Bible)
The NBBC Acts commentary by Richard P Thompson
Acts For Everyone by N T Wright
Acts by Beverly Gaventa. (Abingdon New Testament Commentaries)
Other resources on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music. -
Easter 4C | Acts 9:36-43
Our texts this week are here
Our prayer for this week – “A liturgy before serving others” from Every Moment Holy (vol 1)
“All day long, as I watch the breeze toss these clothes in the wind, I imagine my prayers spinning away over the tops of the trees. This is good work, this prayer. This is good prayer, this work. So is digging in the garden, cleaning the chicken pens, washing the potatoes, doing the dishes. I know there are people who would give anything to do these things, people whose bodies have become too numb, too busy, too old or painful to do them. These are the practices that sustain life—not only my life and the lives entwined with mine, but the lives of all living beings.” Barbara Brown Taylor, Altar in the World (p. 46-47)
Tabitha-type projects worth checking out:
Hookin' for Hope Project: https://olivebranchministry.org/faith-in-harm-reduction-1
Knitting for Peace Project: https://www.knitting4peace.org/what-we-do/patterns
We’ll be spending the Easter season in the book of Acts. Between Megan & Alicia, we will be reading from several Acts commentaries, including –
Acts by Willie Jennings (Belief: A Theological Commentary on the Bible)
The NBBC Acts commentary by Richard P Thompson
Acts For Everyone by N T Wright
Acts by Beverly Gaventa. (Abingdon New Testament Commentaries)
Other resources on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music. -
Easter 3C | Acts 9:1-20
Our texts this week are here
Our prayer for this week is “Not Held” by Walter Brueggeman, from the collection Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth
We highly recommend the book Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Pádraig Ó Tuama reflects on Ilya Kaminsky’s poem, “We Lived Happily During War” in this episode of Poetry Unbound
We’ll be spending the Easter season in the book of Acts. Between Megan & Alicia, we will be reading from several Acts commentaries. Commentaries mentioned –
Acts by Willie Jennings (Belief: A Theological Commentary on the Bible)
The NBBC Acts commentary by Richard P. Thompson
Acts For Everyone by N. T. Wright
Acts by Beverly Gaventa. (Abingdon New Testament Commentaries)
Other resources on our website: commentaries, discipleship, liturgics, music. -
Easter 2C | Acts 5:27-32
Our texts for this week are here
Consider utilizing the resources for Earth Day Sunday provided by our friends at Nazarenes For Creation Care nazarenesforcreationcare.com
We’ll be spending the Easter season in the book of Acts. Between Megan & Alicia, we will be reading from several Acts commentaries. Commentaries mentioned –
Acts by Willie Jennings (Belief: A Theological Commentary on the Bible)
The NBBC Acts commentary by Richard P Thompson
Acts For Everyone by N T Wright
Acts by Beverly Gaventa (Abingdon New Testament Commentaries)
Prayer from Sarah Bessey – Prayer for Loving the World Again by Sarah Bessey from A Rhythm of Prayer: A Collection of Meditations for Renewal
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