Make Us Hearers Who Persevere--Nov. 11, 2016

[From Nov. 14, 2014 archive]

Out of the depths we cry to you, O God;

hear our voice, for we call upon your name.

You have given this good earth for our care,

a gift we have squandered and despoiled.

We have heard your voice, to care for it,

but we have been hearers who forget.

Make us be hearers who persevere

with appropriate actions.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 130; 148; 32; 139

Joel 2:28-3:8

James 1:16-27

Luke 16:1-9

Selected Verses

Ps. 130:1-2

Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD. 

       Lord, hear my voice!
Let your ears be attentive
       to the voice of my supplications!

Joel 2:32

Then everyone who calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved; for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the LORD has said, and among the survivors shall be those whom the LORD calls.

James 1:25

But those who look into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and persevere, being not hearers who forget but doers who act--they will be blessed in their doing.

Luke 16:1

Then Jesus said to the disciples, "There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was squandering his property. …"