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Narrative Lectionary 6/16-7/7 PSALMS (4 WEEKS): SEE R. JACOBSON’S 6-WEEK SERIES (2015) 6/16 Psalm 113 (Luke 15:8-10) 6/23 Psalm 69:1-16 (Matthew 7:7-11) 6/30 Psalm 27:1-6 (Matthew 6...
January 20 Tempted in the Wilderness Matthew 4:1-17 Psalm 91:9-12 January 27 Beatitudes Matthew 5:1-20 Beatitudes, salt of the earth, let your light shine (Psalm 1:1-3) February ...
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The first eleven chapters of Genesis tell of God's gifts to us humans and what we do with them and how God responds. In the beginning, God gave us a garden, companionship, and food. God said no...
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Narrative Lectionary Year One from Spirit & Truth Publishing
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Ruth is a foreigner, a widow with no money who is living with her mother-in-law, Naomi, who is also a widow without financial resources. A kinsman, Boaz, marries Ruth. They have a child, Obed. ...
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If the author of this epistle were writing to your congregation today, would he need to include this section? Does your congregation need to be reminded to love? to love each other? to love our b...
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Religious authorities, aware of the impact that John had been making, traveled to the wilderness to question him. "Who are you?" they wanted to know. He denied being the Messiah or Elijah or the ...
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I am pondering on verse 10, "He was in the world, and the world came into being through him; yet the world did not know him." Why did the world not know him? Has the world caught on yet? I keep...
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The Pharisees and Herodians disagreed on a lot of things, but they did agree with one thing--they both saw Jesus as a disruption. They tried to trap him by asking the question about paying taxes,...
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Quote from Allen & Williamson's Preaching from the Old Testament: > Eight of the ten words begin: "you shall not." People often speak of > negative commandments as off-putting ...
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God had said to those people released from slavery but still living in the wilderness, "You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an idol." Was is easier for them ...
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You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the Lord your God. It seems to me that I was taught not to use certain curse words because they would have been a violation of this command. Later, ...
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Verses 1-4 describe an overwhelming sense of God's glory and the appropriate response to it. On a throne. A high and lofty throne. So large that just the hem of his robe fills the temple. Heavenl...
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Jesus has been talking to Nicodemus, but now is speaking to a plural you when he says "Very truly I tell you.... The Son of Man must be lifted up so that whoever believes in him may have eternal ...
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The Holy Spirit appeared suddenly, loudly, and effectively. The reaction was mixed. Some were bewildered, amazed, astonished. Even when they found themselves able to understand in their own lan...
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In their The First Paul (http://www.cokesbury.com/forms/ProductDetail.aspx?pid=815773), Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan offer us three understandings of this passage by contemporary scholars...
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Paul encouraged Christians to live in community and to care for one another. How might such a community look now? Generations of Hope is a nonprofit adoption agency that has designed a communit...
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John's target in this passage is the pious. He warns them that just showing up for the worship service does not substitute for doing what God wants them to do. John is warning them of imminent ...
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FOR WHATEVER REASON, ENGLISH SPEAKERS DROPPED THE SINGULAR SECOND-PERSON PRONOUN. SO, WE CAN'T TELL WHEN "YOU" MEANS "THEE"; I.E., SINGULAR, AND WHEN IT MEANS "YOU"; I.,E., PLURAL. SO, I LOOK...
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Paul had been raised as a Jew and had lived among Jews. So, a god not made by human hands would have been a basic, long-accepted truth for him--but not so for the Athenians. As would the existenc...
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Paul stood in front of the Areopagus in Athens. I looked it up. The word means "Temple of Ares (god of war)" or "Mars' (another name for Ares) Hill." This building in Paul's time was the meeting ...
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Jesus spoke to Ananias in a vision: Go tell Saul to tell about me to both Gentiles and Jews. Ananias was surprised at the choice of Saul because of his efforts at ridding Judaism of Christ foll...
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"Meanwhile," the passage begins; so, I looked back to see what has been happening. Saul had witnessed the execution of Stephen in Jerusalem. Persecution of Christians in Jerusalem became so fears...
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She has a short conversation with him but is able to recognize him only when he speaks her name. Jesus tells her to go tell. She obeys. She is the first witness to the resurrection. Yet, as w...
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