Here are the readings from the Revised Common Lectionary for today, the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost, the Sixteenth after Trinity.
Esther 7:1-6, 9-10; 9:20-22 and Psalm 124
or
Numbers 11:4-6, 10-16, 24-29 and Psalm 19:7-14
Denominational variations and commentary:
American Baptist:
http://members.aol.com/ashes2fire/mss/lection.htm
Anglican
(Canada):http://www.montreal.anglican.org/comments/bpr21m.shtml
Episcopal (USA):
http://www.io.com/~kellywp/YearB/Pentecost/BProp21.html
Evangelical
Lutheran (Canada): http://www.worship.ca/text/wpchb0506.pdf
United Church (USA):
http://www.ucc.org/worship/samuel/s080106html
United
Methodist:
http://www.gbod.org/worship/default.asp?loc_id=1,612,32,52&act=nav_loc
Reformed Church in America:
http://www.rca.org/NETCOMMUNITY/Page.aspx?&pid=1865&srcid=1880
Roman Catholic:
http://www.word-sunday.com/Files/B/21-b/A-21-b.html
Collect (ECUSA):
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; through the worthiness of your Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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; through the worthiness of your Son 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/pent5mles.htm (Mark)
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/documents/Proper_21-Older_Children_Year_B.doc
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/documents/Proper_21-Older_Children_Year_B.doc
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/documents/Proper_21-Adults_Year_B.doc
Crafts or Art:
http://www.sundayschoollessons.com/pent16kart.htm
(Numbers)
http://www.sundayschoollessons.com/epi2bb.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