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JOURNEY TO PENUEL: Wrestling to See the Face of God

Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary Texts

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The Winds of Change

April 11, 2017April 8, 2017shelliwilliamsLeave a comment

I hope you’re enjoying these daily Holy Week reflections.  I invite you to follow me on Dancing to God.  And I’ll be back next Sunday with regular weekly lectionary notes.  I pray that your Holy Week is exactly what you need it to be as you journey to the Cross and the Resurrection.

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Wheat and Winds

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A Pound of Perfume

April 10, 2017April 8, 2017shelliwilliamsLeave a comment

Something a little bit different for this week.  I invite you to join me for my daily reflections through Holy Week on Dancing to God.  I’ll post the link each day.  And I’ll be back next Sunday with regular weekly lectionary notes.  I pray that your Holy Week is exactly what you need it to be as you journey to the Cross and the Resurrection.

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About Journey to Penuel

After Jacob wrestled with God, we are told that he named the place Peniel ("I have wrestled with God"). And the place is called Penuel ("We have wrestled with God.") This is a blog of weekly reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary Texts. I hope that, like Jacob and others, you will question and wrestle until you see the face of God.
Come, O thou Traveller unknown, Whom still I hold, but cannot see! My company before is gone, And I am left alone with Thee; With Thee all night I mean to stay, And wrestle till the break of day. (Charles Wesley)

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Found

This Sunday’s Lectionary Passage:  John 1: 43-51 43The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, “Follow me.” 44Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. 45Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found him about whom Moses in the law and also the prophets […]

Standing in the Waters

This Sunday’s Lectionary Passage:  Mark 1: 4-11 4John the baptizer appeared in the wilderness, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. 5And people from the whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem were going out to him, and were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. 6Now John was […]

What Now?

Lectionary Passage:  Matthew 2: 1-12 2In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, 2asking, “Where is the child who has been born king of the Jews? For we observed his star at its rising, and have come to pay him homage.” 3When King […]

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