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. 38:1 What was the LORD doing in a whirlwind?
38:2 What examples are
there today of words without knowledge?
What is the difference between a word with and without knowledge?
38:3 Whose masculinity was
in question? Is this going to be a trial
or an interrogation?
38:4 And the answer is?
38:5-7 How would you
classify these questions?
38:34-41 Who asks these
kind of questions anymore?
104:1-9 Can you find all four classical elements—earth, air, water, and fire—in this reading?
104:1-4 How can an urbanized and industrialized Christianity still find any meaning in this psalm?
104:24 There are fewer
species on the earth than there once were.
104:35 Perhaps the earth,
Gaia, will consume the sinners threatening death to the planet God has entrusted
to our care. Will any humans survive?
5:1 Who are our high priests today? In what ways are you like a high priest?
5:2 Who are the ignorant and wayward of our day?
5:4 I think anyone who desires to be a priest (of any faith tradition)
without a little fear and trepidation about actually serving as one is headed
for trouble.
5:5 Who said this to Christ, and when and where?
5:6 and where might this other place be?
Who was Melchizedek? This has got
to be one of the most bizarre, mysterious verses of Scripture.
5:7 what is the difference between a prayer and a supplication?
5:9 How was Jesus made perfect? Was
he not perfect before being made perfect?
What is the meaning of perfection?
5:10 In addition to Melchizedek and Jesus, who else might have been or is a
high priest according to the order of Melchizdek?
10:35 could anyone else other than these two have asked this question?
10:36 Did the Teacher no
know their hearts and minds?
10:37 Had their Teacher
granted their request, would the brothers have been content with where Jesus
sat them?
10:37 What cup? John’s baptism?
10:40 For whom do you think
it has been prepared?
10:42 To whom was Jesus
referring?
10:43-44 The classic
reversal.
10:45 Assuming Jesus s
talking about himself, why did he always refer to himself as the Son of
Man? Does this verse rule out any but a
ransom theory of the Atonement?
ADDENDUM
In addition to serving as the half time Pastor of North ChurchQueens and writing Lectionary Ruminations, I also
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