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
links are to the via the PC(USA) Devotions and
Readings website.
9:8 Why does God not address
the women?
9:9 This is the first, the
Noahic, not the Abrahamic covenant. The Covenant with Abraham came later.
9:10 What are the
implications for an ecological ethic? “Every animal of the earth” reminds me of
the Native American “All my relations.”
9:11 Apparently God did not
know about global climate change.
9:12-13 And the name of this sign Roy G. Biv!
9:16 Does God really need a
rainbow to be reminded of the covenant?
9:17 Is the sign of the
covenant anything like the sign (and seal) of a sacrament?
9:13-17 The rainbow is not
there for us but for God, to remind God. Sacraments are not there for God but
for us, to remind us.
9:8-17 It is unfortunate
that this passage does not mention the number forty.
25:1 I am used to hearing
about the lifting up of the eyes and familiar with the lifting up hands. I wonder how many instances there are of
lifting up of the soul.
25:2 What is more biblical,
trusting in God or believing in God? What, in your mind, is the difference
between “trust” and “belief”?
25:3 What does it mean to
wait for God and in this context who is waiting on God?
24:4-5 How can the LORD “make” us know? How does the LORD “teach”?
25:6 This sounds like the Psalmist
is trying to remind a forgetful God.
25:7 I guess it is all
right for God to forget some things, like my sins, but not other things, like
God’s mercy and steadfast love. Are the “sins of my youth” the same as youthful
indiscretions?
25:8-9 What is God’s “way”?
25:10 How many of the LORD are there? Cab this verse be used to
defend religious and spiritual pluralism?
3:18 Christ was “made”
alive in the spirit?
3:19 What spirits in what
prison? Does this account for the “he descended into hell” phrase in The
Apostles’ Creed?
3:20 Was this Second
Reading selected in light of the First Reading, or vice versa? I compliment
Paul on his theological creativity and seeing in the story of Noah a prefiguration
of Christian Baptism.
3:21 Baptism may not remove
dirt but what about sin? Whose good
conscience is being referred to?
3:22 What “authorities and
powers” might Paul have had in mind?
1:9 In what days? Why was
Jesus baptized?
1:10 Who saw what? If you
had been there what would you have seen?
1:11 Who heard this voice?
Whose voice was this?
1:12 How many times in Mark
do we find “immediately”? Why would the Spirit drive Jesus out into the
wilderness?
1:13 Why “forty days” and
not “forty days and nights”? How was
Jesus tempted by Satan? How shall we understand and interpret this “Satan”? Why
does Mark mention that Jesus was with the wild beasts? How did the Angels “wait”
on Jesus?
1:14 Why did Jesus not come
to Galilee until after John was arrested?
Where was Jesus before he came to Galilee? What is the “good news of
God”? For any news to be good one must recognize that things can always be
better.
1:15 What time is
fulfilled?
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