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.
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5:1 All the tribes, or
representatives of all the tribes? Why
Hebron?
5:2 Could someone be
putting words into their mouths?
5:3 Is this the only
instance of a covenant not involving God, or does making a covenant btween
people before God count as involving God?
5:4 According to the US Constitution,
David would have been five years too young to be President of the United
States.
5:5 Why did David firt rule
from Hebron and then later move to Jerusalem?
5:9 what was the condition
and status of Jerusalem before David took up residence there?
5:10 Did David become more
powerful because the God was with him or did people think God was with him because
David was becoming more powerful?
48:1 Where is the city of
our God? What is God’s holy mountain?
48:2 What and where is
Zaphon? Who is the great king?
48:3 Is there a difference
between a citadel and a fortress?
48:4 What kings and what
alliance are being referred to?
48:5 What does “her” refer
to? Could this verse be alluding to the siege of Tiglath-Pileser?
48:6 I would appreciate
some women commenting on the simile.
48:7 Were ships of Tarshish
ever shattered?
48:8 The United States has
never really had a religious center or religious capital. What about other
countries?
48:9 Do you ever ponder? Do
you ever meditate in the sanctuary?
48:10 Another slight toward
left-handedness?
48:11 Compared to Jerusalem
are all other habitation mere villages?
48:12 How many towers were
around Zion?
48:13 What is the
difference between a rampart and a citadel?
48:14 I would have expected
“defender” rather than “guide”.
12:2 This must be one of
the stranger and more bizarre verses in the New Testament. Have you ever had an out of the body
experience? How many heavens are there?
Could this autobiographical?
12:3 Are you losing track
of what Paul knows and does not know?
12:4 How does Paul know
this?
12:5 Why would Paul boast
about someone like he has just described?
12:6 Has Paul just tooted
his own horn?
12:7 What surprisingly
great revelations is he referring to? What do you make of this thorn? Why did Paul think this thorn was a messenger
of Satan?
12:8 Only three times? Did
Paul not have faith that it would be taken away?
12:9 So Paul will not boast
about his greatness but rather his weakness. I think he I still boasting. Might
he also be seeking pity?
12:10. Poor Paul. He asking
for a pity party?
6:1 Jesus left where? Where
was his hometown?
6:2 When was the last time
anyone was astounded by your teaching?
How would YOU answer the questions asked in this verse?
6:3 You mean Jesus was not
an only child? That his brothers but not
his sisters are named is an example of the patriarchy of the times.
6:4 What prophets might
Jesus have been referring to?
6:5 As if laying your hands
on a few people and healing them is something minor.
6:6 Whose lack of faith?
6:7 Why two by two?
6:8-9 Why these
instructions? How could they be expected
to accomplish their mission without any provisions or a building and/or
sanctuary? Was Jesus sending them out to be beggers?
6:11 Enacting this verse
can be quite cathartic. Believe me, I know!
6:12 Was this preaching any
different than the preaching of John the Baptizer?
6:13 Why do Presbyterians
not do more anointing with oil? Why do Presbyterians generally not drive out
demons?
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