I am an emeritus professor from Cornell University and was a Commissioned Lay Preacher in the Presbyterian Church (USA). For many years I have followed the Daily Lectionary as printed in the Mission Yearbook of my church. For each day of a two-year cycle, the lectionary lists four psalms and three other scriptural passages--usually one from the Old Testament and two from the New Testament. My practice is to copy down a verse or two from one of the psalms and from each of the other three passages. After I have written out all four selections, I reflect upon them, rearrange their order, and incorporate them into a meditation. Sometimes I retain much of the original wording; sometimes all that remains of a selection is an idea that was stimulated when I read the original words. All selections are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible. For the Daily Lectionary, see the link below.

Worship Ponderings--July 22, 2020


We sit in worship, O God;
we hear your word read to us,
and we ponder your steadfast love.

We follow you, Jesus, if only from afar,
and know not how this will  end,

but fill us with Holy Spirit,
righteousness, joy,
and peace.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 15; 147:1-11; 48; 4
Josh. 8:30-35
Rom. 14:13-23
Matt. 26:57-68

Selected Verses
Ps. 48:9
We ponder your steadfast love, O God,
          in the midst of your temple.

Josh. 8:35
There was not a word of all that Moses commanded that Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, and the women, and the little ones, and the aliens who resided among them.

Rom. 14:17
For the kingdom of God is not food and drink but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. 

Matt. 26:58
But Peter was following [Jesus] at a distance, as far as the courtyard of the high priest; and going inside, he sat with the guards in order to see how this would end. 

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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