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.
3:14 Why is Zion/Jerusalem
referred to as a daughter?
3:15 Who made judgments
against Israel? Who were Israel’s
enemies?
3:16 What day? Who will say this to Israel?
3:17 I do not like
militaristic imagery being applied to God.
This is what gave us the Crusades.
3:19 Are these oppressors
the same as the enemies of verse 15?
3:20 We are they now if
they are not home?
12:2 What is the
relationship between trust and fear?
12:3 What, and where, are
the wells of salvation? Can water from
the wells of salvation be bottled and sold?
12:4 What day? How does one call on the name of the LORD
when the LORD’s name is not to be pronounced? What are the deeds of the LORD?
12:6 Who is the Holy One of Israel?
4:4 On a
scale of 1 to 10, 1 being lethargic and 10 being manic, how would you rate your
community’s ability to rejoice?
4:5 How do you define “gentleness”? Near is a relative term. How near is the Lord?
4:6 This must be Bobby
McFerrin’s favorite Bible verse. What is
the difference, if any, between prayer and supplication?
4:7 Are “hearts” and “minds”
all inclusive? What about body and soul?
3:7 What do you think was
the size of the crowds? How often do
evangelists insult those they are preaching to?
What wrath is coming?
3:8 What fruits are worthy
of repentance? What stones?
3:9 Does this verse
contribute to the imagery of Dante’s inferno?
3:11 This is not good news
for the 1% Let’s tweet this verse to Republican members of the House of Representatives!
3:12 Why “even”? Other than John and Jesus, is anyone else in
the New Testament ever referred to as a teacher? I think it is significant the John is
addressed the same way Jesus would be later addressed.
3:10-14 What do you make of
the fact that tax collectors and soldiers are the only two groups or people
mentioned?
3:15 What if John had been
the Messiah?
3:16 How does water compare
with fire and the Holy Spirit? Might “untying
the thong of a sandal” have been an idiomatic expression or colloquialism?
3:17 Oh no, more fire!
3:18 I wonder what the
other exhortations were? Did the above
really sound like good news to you?
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