Weekly Readings: Proper 17

• First reading and Psalm
  
  • Exodus 3:1-15
    
  • Psalm 105:1-6, 23-26, 45b
    
• Second reading
  
  • Romans 12:9-21
    
• Gospel
  
  • Matthew 16:21-28
    

Theme: Rather than trying to scold God, we must take up our cross and allow God to set us on fire with the Holy Spirit, which burns without destroying.

Prayer: Father, I want to participate in the work of your Son; please open me up to the fire of the Spirit, so I might be able to bear my cross. Amen.