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Texts: Nehemiah 8:1-10; Luke 4:14-21
Speaker: Joel Miller
“What season are we in now?” It was an earnest question from the administrative side of the church office, directed at me.
The intent was to discern whether we need a new icon for worship slides, a new word or phrase declaring a theme. Something to give order to these disordered days.
“Depends who you ask,” I reply. “Some liturgical calendars call the whole season between Christmas and Lent Epiphany. Others just call it Ordinary Time, same as the long stretch in the summer.”
After further discussion during which we voiced our personal preferences whether to think of this as Epiphany or Ordinary Time, I mentioned that it kind of doesn’t matter since we’ll be going with the lectionary readings week to week without an overall theme.
It’s one of the perks of being Mennonite. We get to pick and choose when to emphasize the liturgical...