ACTIONS
The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
PSALM 82:3 (NLT)
Give justice to the poor and the orphan;
uphold the rights of the oppressed and the destitute.
1 JOHN 3:18 (NLT)
Dear children, let’s not merely say that we love each other; let us show the truth by our actions.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
Talk less about how much you care and do more to prove it.
PRAYER
Loving God, you showed us what you're about by sending your Son to live among us and die for us. I confess that I've gotten into the habit of trying to make things right through my Facebook posts and am not so quick to back those words up with actions. Help me to reprioritize actions over words. I'm going to follow Christ, who is the living Word, in backing up my words with genuine actions. Amen.
*ABOUT THE
DAILY TEXTS
The Daily Texts have been published by the Moravian Church since 1731. In 2011 I started posting these Bible verses for my spiritual formation students at Pacific Islands University. In the process of responding to the verses, I found the rhythm of looking for a common thread and writing a prayer based on that key idea to be helpful for my own soul. The prayers are more or less modeled on the TRIP method, which is what I ask my students to do in their journaling. ~ Brad Boydston
TRANSLATIONS
ABP = Authorized Boydston Paraphrase -- a freestyle biblical adaptation -- somewhere between paraphrase, commentary, and sermon
CEB = Common English Bible (©2011, the Common English Bible)
CEV = Contemporary English Version (©1995, American Bible Society)
MSG = The Message (©1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson)
NIRV = New International Reader's Version (©1996, 1998, Biblica)
NIV = New International Version (©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011, Biblica)
NLT = New Living Translation (©1996, 2004, 2007, 2013, Tyndale House Foundation)
