The care that God constantly exerts on our behalf

Collect: Proper 11

Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom, you know our necessities before we ask and our ignorance in asking: have compassion on our weakness, and mercifully give us those things which for our unworthiness we dare not, and for our blindness we cannot ask; though the worthiness of your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen

2 Samuel 7:1-14a . . . God overwhelms David with the promise of an eternal kingdom to David’s heir.

Psalm 89:20-37  . . . a recapitulation of the covenant between God and David’s descendants  and a lament praying for deliverance from enemies

or the alternative 1st readings . . .

Jeremiah 23:1-6 and Psalm 23 . . . the image of God as a shepherd to describe how God will gather the people

Ephesians 2:11-22 . . . the reconciling work of Christ, who is the peace between Gentiles and Jews

Mark 6:30-44, 53-56. . . Jesus has compassion on the crowds of people, who remind him of sheep without a shepherd

Sermon by Andrew Foster Connors, Pastor of Brown Memorial Park Avenue Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, Maryland, preaches a sermon on this week’s Gospel lesson: Mark 6:30-34, 53-56,  “For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat,”