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August 12, 2018 The Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost
As
we live out each day, we reflect on our faith in our words and actions. Each of
us is an example of the Christian life as we struggle to live in forgiving love
toward one another, and also as we continue to trust in the forgiveness Christ
won for us. In today’s Old Testament Reading, Elijah almost gives up, but he is
strengthened with miraculous food. Then in the Epistle, Paul provides a list of
what our life in Christ should look like because of our new birth in Baptism.
In the Gospel, Jesus spells out the connection between receiving His body and
blood in the Lord’s Supper and living in hope each day. He is the bread of life
from heaven, who enables each of us to discard our old ways, live in the new
life of God’s forgiving love, and adorn ourselves with gladness.
I Kings 19:1-8 Ephesians 4:17-5:2 st John 6:35-51
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