Preparation for Sunday Service
For Sunday the 30th of August, 2026 (Proper 17)
As we gather for worship today, Christ’s call that we deny ourselves, take up our cross and follow Him boldly challenges each of us. In the Epistle, the call to respond to God’s mercy by humble and willing service to one another presents our cross as a burden of love. Jeremiah, in the Old Testament reading, serves almost as an object lesson for such self-sacrificing service. It can be trying and difficult and even lead one to despair, but the Lord reminds His servants that He is with them to fortify them, to rescue and save and redeem them until the day they serve before His heavenly throne.
