Weekly Seeds is a weekly email summary of our popular resource for lectionary-based Bible study. It includes next Sunday's Bible reading, a brief meditation, and reflections from ancient or contemporary sources. Each email links to the full version, which you'll also find linked further down this page. Click the "Signup" button below to subscribe when the form is complete.
Beautiful Law
Wonder, beauty, and the law
Always Close
Remembering and trusting in God's promises
God's Loving Paths/Blessed Connections
Lent: making room for God in our lives
Thin Places/Compassionate Community
On our way to glory
Sustaining Ministry
Healing and preaching and service and love
With Authority/Power to Do
All will be amazed by the reality of God's love
Moving Forward/Embracing the Tension
Throwing down our nets and following Jesus
Called and Recalled
Each one of us deeply known, deeply cherished
New Beginnings/Into Right Relationship
Sunday, January 11
The Baptism of Christ (First Sunday after Epiphany)
Focus Theme
New Beginnings/Into Right Relationship
Weekly Prayer
Holy God, creator of light and herald of goodness, at the waters of baptism you proclaimed Jesus your beloved Son. With the baptized of every time and generation, may we say yes to your call of repentance and be led to the life of abundance we experience in your kinship and your love. Amen.
Long-Awaited Gift/Righteousness is Born
Seeing 'beyond' on a bright and hope-filled morning