Welcome to the BEMA Liturgy.

Engage the Liturgy.

As a facilitator, you’ll want to look forward to prepare and assign readings to different members of your community. You’ll see each Part in full, right here, at least two weeks ahead of time. You can also follow the propers in blog form on our Liturgy page; each week’s entry will appear at the appropriate time.

Part A — A Time of Planting and Harvest

Introduction to Part A by Marty Solomon

• Trust: Goodness and Rest (Week 1, Aug 28)

• Knowing When to Say Enough (Week 2, Sep 4)

• Putting a Stop to Fear and Insecurity (Week 3, Sep 11)

• Putting Guilt in Its Place (Week 4, Sep 18)

• Dropping the Jawbone (Week 5, Sep 25)

• Refusing to Settle (Week 6, Oct 2)

• Becoming Our Brother’s Keeper (Week 7, Oct 9)

• Sharing, Generosity, and Hospitality (Week 8, Oct 16)

• The Harvest of Perseverance (Week 9, Oct 23)

• Shrewd as Serpents (Week 10, Oct 30)

• When It Looks Like It’s All for Naught (Week 11, Nov 6)

• Forgiveness: The Greatest Act of Trust (Week 12, Nov 13)

• The Audacity of Trust (Week 13, Nov 20)

  Conclusion to Part A by Marty Solomon and Reed Dent

Part B — Reflections on Death

Introduction to Part B by Marty Solomon and Reed Dent

• Hope: The Prophet Candle (Week 14, Nov 27)

• Peace: The Bethlehem Candle (Week 15, Dec 4)

• Joy: The Shepherd Candle (Week 16, Dec 11)

• Love: The Magi Candle (Week 17, Dec 18)
  [Christmas Eve] Child: The Christ Candle (Dec 24)

• How the Kingdom Comes (Week 18, Dec 25)

• Embracing the Embrace of God (Week 19, Jan 1)

• Yeast: Even This Could Be Holy (Week 20, Jan 8)

• Pronouncements of Favor (Week 21, Jan 15)

• On Abolishing and Fulfilling (Week 22, Jan 22)

• The Kingdom of God and the Anger of Men (Week 23, Jan 29)

• Regarding One Another (Week 24, Feb 5)

• Beyond the Borders of the World’s Love (Week 25, Feb 12)

• Like Him in His Death (Week 26, Feb 19)

Conclusion to Part B by Reed Dent

Part C — Reshaped by Hope and New Life

Introduction to Part C by Reed Dent

• Ash Wednesday I: Backward and Forward in Time (Week 27, Feb 26)

• Ash Wednesday II: Further Backward and Further Forward (Week 28, Mar 5)

• On Lent: Fasting (Week 29, Mar 12)

• On Lent: Testing (Week 30, Mar 19)

• A Liturgy of Searching (Week 31, Mar 26)

• [Palm Sunday] A Statement of Triumph (Week 32, Apr 2)
  [Maundy Thursday] Beloved Betrayer (Apr 6)
  [Good Friday] Forsaken Together (Apr 7)
  [Holy Saturday] Even If I Make My Bed in Sheol (Apr 8)

• A Wedding Sermon for Easter (Week 33, Apr 9)

• Out of the Resurrection, Into the World (Week 34, Apr 16)

• Teaching in Riddles (Week 35, Apr 23)

• Barn Building and the Generosity of Resurrection Life (Week 36, Apr 30)

• A Ridiculous Economy of Forgiveness: Two Servants in Need of Mercy (Week 37, May 7)

• The Good Samaritan Draws Near: Compassion as Action (Week 38, May 14)

• Like Him in His Life (Week 39, May 21)

Conclusion to Part C by Reed Dent and Josh Bossé

Part D — Children of the Resurrection

Introduction to Part D by Marty Solomon and Elle Grover Fricks

• [Pentecost] Giving God a Chance (Week 40, May 28)

• Radical Commitments to Radical Community (Week 41, June 4)

• Radical Inclusion (Week 42, June 11)

• Radical Faithfulness (Week 43, June 18)

• The Faithfulness of Christ (Week 44, June 25)

• Empowered to Walk in the Truth of the Resurrection (Week 45, July 2)

• The Faith of Abraham in the Light of the Resurrection (Week 46, July 9)

• A Big IN, a Bigger FOR, and a Huge WITH (Week 47, July 16)

• Living Stones for a Living Hope (Week 48, July 23)

• The Perseverance of the Saints (Week 49, July 30)

• A Great Cloud of Witnesses (Week 50, August 6)

• The Removal of the Intruder (Week 51, August 13)

• The Ending Is a New Beginning (Week 52, August 20)

Conclusion to Part D by Marty Solomon