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. 1 What is the history
and meaning of your name? What name is
above every other name? What is “favor”?
v. 2 Is this ALL they have
in common?
v. 8 Let the politicians
beware.
vs. 22-23 This reads like a
passage for the 99%
v. 1 How do you define
trust?
v. 2 What is it about being
surrounded by mountains that is good news?
v. 3 What is a scepter and
what does it symbolize?
vs. 3-4 Is there a theology
of reward and punishment informing this Psalm?
v. 1 What “acts of
favoritism” are being referred to?
v. 2-4 Have you ever
witnessed any such thing?
v. 5-7 Some more Scripture
for the 99%.
v. 8 Why is this law
referred to as “the royal law”?
v. 11 This verse seems to
me to get it backwards.
v. 12 What is “law of
liberty”?
v. 14 Can faith save YOU?
v. 17 Faith, without works,
might be dead. But what are works
without faith?
v. 24 From where? What do you know about Tyre? Why did Jesus not want anyone to know he was
in the house?
v. 25 How do post-modern,
scientifically informed people of faith handle passages, like this one, that
speak of “unclean spirits”?
v. 26 What difference does
it make that she was a Gentile? Of
Syrophoenician origin?
v. 27 How do you react to
the fact that Jesus said this?
v. 29 Why was her response
rewarded?
v. 30 How could Jesus heal
someone without that person even being present for laying on of hands?
v. 31 What do you know of
Sidon?
v. 32 What sort of
impediment do you imagine?
v. 33 Why in private? Why put fingers in ears and touch tongues
instead of laying on hands?
v. 34 What language is
“Ephphatha”? Where else in Scripture do
we hear a world like this?
v. 36 What do you know
about “the Messianic secret”?
v. 37 When was the last
time you, or members of the congregation you are associated with, were astounded?
ADDENDUM
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