Here are the readings from the Revised Common Lectionary for today, the Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, the fourteenth after Trinity.
Proverbs
1:20-33 and [Psalm
19 or Wisdom
of Solomon 7:26 - 8:1]
or
Isaiah
50:4-9a and Psalm
116:1-9
James
3:1-12
Mark
8:27-38
Denominational variations and commentary:
American Baptist:
http://members.aol.com/ashes2fire/mss/lection.htm
Anglican
(Canada):http://www.montreal.anglican.org/comments/bpr24m.shtml
Episcopal (USA):
http://www.io.com/~kellywp/YearB/Pentecost/BProp19.html
Evangelical
Lutheran (Canada): http://www.worship.ca/text/wpchb0506.pdf
United Church (USA):
http://www.ucc.org/worship/samuel/s091706html
United
Methodist:
http://www.gbod.org/worship/default.asp?act=reader&item_id=16626&loc_id=9,612,32,52
Reformed Church in America:
http://www.rca.org/NETCOMMUNITY/Page.aspx?&pid=1865&srcid=1880
Roman Catholic:
http://www.word-sunday.com/Files/Index/B/22-b/index.html
Collect (ECUSA):
O God, because without you we are not able to please you, mercifully grant that your Holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule our hearts; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
O God,
We want to please You, but we need
Your help to do what is right.
Please guide us through Your Holy
Spirit in everything we do;
through Jesus Christ our Lord, who
lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for
ever. Amen.
Sunday-school Lesson plans:
http://www.sundayschoollessons.com/petersun.htm
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/documents/Proper_19-Older_Children_Year_B.doc
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/documents/Proper_19-Older_Children_Year_B.doc
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/documents/Proper_19-Adults_Year_B.doc
Crafts or Art:
http://www.sundayschoollessons.com/pent14kart.htm (Psalm)
Pew-work
http://Logrus.ca/HomeChurchWeb/Pewwork_adult.html
http://Logrus.ca/HomeChurchWeb/Pewwork_middleschool.html
http://Logrus.ca/HomeChurchWeb/Pewwork_elementary.html
http://Logrus.ca/HomeChurchWeb/Pewwork_preschool.html