![]() ![]() “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.” – 2 Tim 3:16-17 ![]() Let’s look at just three verses that tell us about God’s Word: (A copy of the current Church Year Calendar and Lectionary is available from our Synod’s website here.The Bible is God’s word to us, a treasure trove of instruction, teaching, and encouragement which helps us to know God and Jesus and to discern his will. This year, 2020, we are in the Year A Lectionary cycle, and the Season after Pentecost begins with the readings for Proper 6 on the Second Sunday after Pentecost. You can see a listing of the Lectionary Readings in the front of the pew edition of Lutheran Service Book on pages xiv-xix. This system is different from previous Lectionaries used by our congregation, where the opposite was done: one began on the Second Sunday after Pentecost (the Feast of the Holy Trinity is always the First Sunday after Pentecost), and continue through until either three weeks before the Last Sunday or the Last Sunday itself, skipping over any unneeded Sundays at the end of the Lectionary. And by using this schedule, we skip over any “unneeded” Sundays at the beginning of the season and continue straight through the appointed course of readings to the End of the Church Year. ![]() The “Propers” used during the Season after Pentecost are scheduled according to the calendar, set by dates that a Sunday may fall between. This is why there can be in any given year anywhere between 4 to 9 Sundays after Epiphany (any unused Sundays in this season, other than the First and Last Sundays, are skipped), and anywhere from 23 to 28 Sundays after Pentecost. The Sundays in “Ordinary Time” fill up the remainder of the Sundays left in the year, determined by the date of Easter. Each year, the Sundays in the Festival Seasons of Advent, Christmas, Lent, and Easter take up a “regularly scheduled” amount of Sundays. “Ordinary” is used here, not in the sense of “common” or “usual”, but rather as in “counted”. In the “green seasons” of the Church Year (the Sundays after Epiphany in the winter the Sundays after Pentecost in the summer and fall), are known in many places as “Ordinary Time”. These have been included for you, not to “give you the answers”, but rather to guide and deepen your own personal reflection with these thoughts from Pastor Ken Behnken, the author of the study. These give the “answers” for the questions found in each study. (The Gospel is presented first as it is the main reading which carries the theme of the day the Old Testament is selected to complement the theme of the Gospel and the Epistle during the Pentecost Season is a semi-continuous reading through the letters of the New Testament.)įollowing all of the Study Guides, you will find the Leader’s Guide materials. The Study Guide will lead you through each Sunday’s Scriptures: Gospel, Old Testament, Epistle. This study is presented for each Sunday in two sections: the Study Guide and Leader’s Guide. It will take you through the Readings used during our Sunday Worship Services, giving you additional insights into their meaning.Ĭurrent Study Guide for the Easter SeasonĮaster Sunday-Ascension April 4-May 16, 2021 The guide provided here is from “A Longer Look at the Lessons” which we use here at Trinity for our Sunday Morning Bible Study. While we are on in this continued state of emergency we want to provide you with tools for your continued study and growth in God’s Word. ![]()
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