Lectionary
Ruminations 2.0 is a revised continuation of Lectionary Ruminations. Focusing on The Revised Common Lectionary Readings for the upcoming Sunday from New Revised
Standard Version (NRSV) of the Bible, Lectionary
Ruminations 2.0 draws on nearly thirty years of pastoral experience. Believing that the questions we ask are often
more important than any answers we find, without overreliance on commentaries I
intend with comments and questions to encourage reflection and rumination for
readers preparing to teach, preach, or hear the Word. Reader comments are
invited and encouraged. All lectionary
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33:12-23 How would you categorize the conversation
between Mosses and the LORD?
33:12 Why does Moses think the LORD will
send someone with him? It sounds like Moses is reminding the Lord of what the
LORD has promised. Does the LORD need reminded?
33:13 Do you think Moses has found favor
in the LORD’s sight? Have you?
33:14 What is the LORD’s “presence”? Is this the answer Moses might have been
expecting?
33:15 Is Moses challenging The LORD or
putting the LORD on notice?
33:16 Where is the LORD’s presence today?
33:17 It seems Moses gets his way! What
does it mean that the LORD knows the name of Moses? Does the LORD know your
name?
33:18 What is the LORD’s “glory”?
33:19 Once again it seems like Moses is
going to get what he asked for.
33:20 Why can no one look upon the face
of the LORD and live? Have there been any exceptions?
33:21 Why are many holy places rocks,
rocky, or associated with rcoks?
33:22 Why will the LORD put Moses in a
cleft of the rock and cover the face of Moses?
33:23 So the LORD is basically planning
to “moon” Moses?
99:1 Why would the peoples tremble? What and
where are cherubim and how does God sit enthroned upon them?
99:2 What and where is Zion?
99:3 How does one praise the LORD’s name
when the LORD’s name is never pronounced?
99:3, 5, 9 What does it mean to be
“Holy”?
99:4 What is this righteousness?
99:5 How does one extol the LORD? What
and where is the LORD’s footstool?
99:6 Is this Psalm as much about Moses,
Aaron, and Samuel as it is The LORD?
99:7 Why does the LORD not speak like
this anymore?
99:8 How can the LORD be both forgiving
and avenging?
99:9 What and where is the LORD’s holy
mountain?
1:1 It appears three people are writing
this letter. What else do we know about
Silvanus and Timothy?
1:2 Always? Constantly? Is this hyperbole?
1:3 What work and labor might the authors
be referring to?
1:4 Who is “he”?
1:5 What do power, the Holy Spirit, and
full conviction add to the word?
1:6 How did the Thessalonians imitate
Paul, Silvanus, Timothy and Jesus?
1:7 Where are Macedonia and Achaia and
how did the Thessalonians become examples to people in those places?
1:8 How has the faith of the
Thessalonians become known in other places?
1:9 How would the people in Macedonia and
Achaia know this?
1:10 Not that “rescues” is in the
present, not the future tense.
22:15 Who and what were the Pharisees? Can
you spell “conspiracy”?
22:16 Who were the Herodians and why were
they conspiring with the Pharisees? Where these people speaking the truth even
though they sought to entrap Jesus?
22:17 What is the trap that is being set?
22:18 What was their malice? Why are they hypocrites? How was Jesus aware
of their malice?
22:19 What do you know about the
denarius? What is the irony here?
22:20 I suggest you consult some other
translations of this verse. What are
other options for the Greek translated here as “head”?
22:21 What things are God’s?
22:22 Why were the Herodians and the
disciples of the Pharisees amazed?
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