Posted each Thursday, Lectionary Ruminations focuses on the Scripture Readings, taken from the New Revised Standard Version, for the following Sunday per the Revised Common Lectionary. Comments and questions are intended to encourage reflection for readers preparing to teach, preach, or hear the Word. Reader comments are invited and encouraged. All lectionary links are to the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) of the Bible via the PC(USA) Devotions and Readings website, but if you prefer another translation, feel free to use that instead. (Other references may be linked to the NRSV via the oremus Bible Browser.) Lectionary Ruminations is also cross-posted on my personal blog, Summit to Shore.
v. 44 How does the Holy Spirit fall?
Does hearing refer to physical or spiritual phenomena, or both?
v. 45 When was the last
time someone in your worshiping community was astounded? What is the gift of the Holy Spirit and how
is it poured out?
v. 45 What was more
astounding, the people speaking in tongues, or the people extolling God?
v. 46 Is this a rhetorical
question?
v. 48 How do we reconcile
baptism in the name of Jesus Christ with Trinitarian baptismal formula?
v. 1 What is a new
song? Are old songs not good enough? How can we talk about God’s right hand and
holy arm without over anthropomorphizing God?
Is this a right hand conspiracy?
v. 2 How has the LORD
revealed vindication?
v. 3 I think this is
hyperbole, or wishful thinking, on the Psalmist’s part.
v. 4 What sort of noise is joyful? Does
“all the earth” refer only to human beings or to all living creatures? Could
“all the earth” also refer to waterfalls, wind, the sound of waves against the
beach,
etc?
vs. 5-6 What? No organ?
No piano?
v. 7 I think my question
raised by the fourth verse was just answered.
v. 8 I have heard floods
literally clap, but I have never heard hill literally, only metaphorically,
sing.
v. 9 Will God judge all the
earth, or only human beings?
v. 1 Is it also true that
every one born of God believes that Jesus is the Christ? Id being “born of God” the same as being born
anew, or born from above?
vs. 1-2 Note the transition
from the singular “child” to the plural “children”. To what commandments is the author referring?
v. 4 What is the meaning of
“conquer”? What is the meaning of
“faith”?
v. 5 Is there a difference
between believing and saying that “Jesus
is the Son of God”?
v. 6 To what is the author
referring when writing about “water and the blood”? How does the “Spirit” testify? What does the author mean “the Spirit is the
truth”?
v.9 Who is speaking? How does one abide in anyone’s love?
v. 10 Whose
commandments? What are these
commandments? If we keep the Son’s
commandments, can we then ignore the Father’s commandments?
v.11 Is your complete?
v. 12 Is this the answer to
my question raised in relation to verse 10?
v. 13 What does it mean to
lay down one’s life?
v. 14 So this friendship is
conditional?
v. 16 This is sounding very
Reformed! The Father will give us
whatever we ask only if we bear everlasting fruit?
v. 17 I heard only one
command in verse 12, so why the plural?
ADDENDUM
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