Monthly Archives: July 2014

Images for the Fifth Sunday After Pentecost-Lectionary 15A

Isaiah 55: 10-13 My ways are higher than your ways, my thoughts than your thoughts

Psalm 65: 9-13 You crown the year with your bounty

Romans 8: 1-11 There is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ

Matthew 13: 1-9, 18-23 Parable of the Sower

Christoph Weigel, The Sower

Vincent van Gogh, The Sower with a Setting Sun

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Landscape with the Parable of the Sower

Anonymous, the Sower

Anonymous, The Sower- Both of the previous images from http://www.artbible.net

Also James B. Janknecht’s interesting image the Four Soils

ScheffZechariah 9: 9-12 Lo, your king comes to you…humble and riding on a donkey

Psalm 145: 8-14 The LORD is gracious and merciful, slow to anger…

Romans 7: 15-25a Who will rescue me from this body of death

Matthew 11: 16-19, 25-30 Come to me all you who are weary…and I will give you rest

My poem Unforced Rhythms of Grace pulls heavily on the language of the gospel text this week

The Zechariah 9 text is also used on Palm Sunday, and so to begin with a Palm Sunday image

James Tissot, The Procession in the Streets of Jerusalem (1886-1902)

For the Gospel text this week here are some of the interesting images I found

There is a very beautiful image here by Robyn Sand Anderson go to Yoke about 1/2 way down the page

Come and Rest by keb_s@deviantart.com

Carl Heinrich Bloch, Christ Consolator

Ari Scheffer, Christus Consolator (1836)

David Hetland, Come Unto Me at the First United Methodist Church, Fargo, ND