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.
5:2 What is the meaning of “Bethlehem”? What is the significance, or insignificance,
of Ehhpratah? What sort of origin is
from of old? When were ancient days?
5:3 Who is giving up? Who is being given up? Who is in labor? Whose kindred shall return?
5:5a What does it mean to
be “the one of peace”?
1:46b What is the first
word in the Latin Vulgate translation of this verse? How does one’s soul magnify the LORD?
1:48 What is the nature of
this lowliness? What does it mean to be
called blessed?
1:50 What is the nature of
this fear?
1:51 What does “in the
thoughts of their hearts” mean?
1:54 What is the meaning of
“in remembrance of his mercy”?
1:55 What promise is being
referred to?
10:5 What came before this “consequently”? Is it not essential to the argument? Where did Christ say the following? What body has been prepared? What, or where, is the scroll of the book?
10:9 The “first” and the “second”
refers to what?
10:10 Does this verse
presume, or require, any specific theory of the atonement?
1:39 What days were those
days? Why did Mary go with haste?
1:40 Why did Mary not greet
Zechariah?
1:41 What is the meaning of
the child’s leaping? Was it the child’s
leaping that filled Elizabeth with the Holy Spirit? If not, when was she filled?
1:44 How did Elizabeth know
it was joy and not some other emotion?
ADDENDUM
In addition to serving as
the half time Pastor of North Church Queens and writing Lectionary Ruminations, I also
tutor part time. If you or someone you
know needs a tutor, or if you would like to be a tutor, check out my WyzAnt page and follow the appropriate links.
I have been posting Lectionary Ruminations to Presbyterian Bloggers for
nearly three years. I will attempt to
continue posting through the Scripture Readings for February 10, 2013,
Transfiguration of the Lord. I may
continue posting Lectionary Ruminations to my personal blog, Summit to Shore but
not here. If you have been following
these posts, please migrate over to my personal blog.
Here is a link to a prayer I wrote and used last Sunday, December 16, in in response to the
violence at Newtown.
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