Prayer of Confession Contemplating America’s 250th Anniversary
“we hear histories told backwards, shuffled and reconstructed to assure us that the ideas we like best are at the heart of who we’ve always been.”
Genesis 22:1-14
“The fire and the wood are here, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”
Proper 8A
June 28, 2026
Romans 6:12-23
“present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life”
Proper 8A
June 28, 2026
1 Kings 6
“the house that King Solomon built for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high”
Genesis 21:8-21
“do not let me look on the death of the child”
Proper 7A
June 21, 2026
Romans 6:1b-11
“all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death”
Proper 7A
June 21, 2026
Genesis 18:1-15 & 21:1-7
“but Sarah denied, saying, ‘I did not laugh,’ for she was afraid.”
Proper 6A
June 14, 2026
Ruth 3:1-18
“the man was startled and turned over, and there, lying at his feet, was a woman!”
NL
June 14, 2026
Matthew 9:9-13, 18-26
“he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax-collection station”
Proper 5A
June 7, 2026
Galatians 6
“if anyone is detected in a transgression, you who have received the Spirit should restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness”