Year B Jeremiah 31:31-34 Psalm 119:9-16 Hebrews 5:5-10 John 12:20-33 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… Jeremiah lived during one of the most critical periods in the history of the Jewish people… the destruction of Jerusalem and Solomon’s Temple… followed immediately by the Babylonian exile… he witnessed the last years of the kingdom...
Year A Genesis 18:1-15 Psalm 116:1, 10-17 Romans 5:1-8 Matthew 9:35-10:8 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… Our reading from Genesis… is about hospitality… God came as three men… three angels… in the heat of the day… when there was no air conditioning… when heat indices were no less real than they are...
Year A Isaiah 9:2-7 Psalm 96 Titus 2:11-14 Luke 2:1-14 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… Every ten years… our government conducts a census… the main purpose of which is to count heads… to know how many people live here… so it can figure out how many seats each state receives in the...
Year A Isaiah 7:10-16 Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19 Romans 1:1-7 Matthew 1:18-25May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… Presbyterian minister T. Denise Anderson writes that in today’s passage from Isaiah… God tells King Ahaz to ask for a sign… Ahaz rules the southern kingdom of Judah… which includes Jerusalem… King Pekah of the northern kingdom...
Year A Isaiah 11:1-10 Psalm 72:1-7, 18-19 Romans 15:4-13 Matthew 3:1-12May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… John the Baptist wears symbolic clothing and eats symbolic food… both of which suggest people and processes in Israel’s past… both of which explore the dynamics of repentance… John’s clothing is reminiscent of Elijah’s… in a story...