Ruth 3:1-5; 4:13-17
Proper 27B
[…] upon having a son. What does she have? A foreign daughter-in-law. So it is a step of grace that, in the women of the town’s hymn of thanksgiving, Ruth is acknowledged as the one who loves Naomi and is “better to (her) than seven sons!” One foreign woman, filled with kindness is better than […]
Psalm 123
Proper 9B
[…] doing so. And maybe people in our congregations work with folks like this or are related to people like this and maybe endure things like a fractious Thanksgiving Day meal when Uncle Floyd cannot help but pooh-pooh the God that some other family members had worshiped earlier that day at their church’s Thanksgiving Day […]
1 Timothy 2:1-7
Proper 20C
[…] whom the evil one had held hostage. Paul’s assertion of God’s desire to rescue all people through Jesus Christ informs his desire that “requests, prayers, intercession, and thanksgiving be made for everyone – for kings and all in authority” (1-2). Christians sometimes think he’s calling Christians to a general prayer for everyone’s well-being. We […]
Matthew 11:1-19: Watch Your Step – Advent 3A
[…] have been given the chance to see the truth. By grace God keeps us from tripping over Jesus but instead Jesus becomes our entry into eternal life. Only the Holy Spirit can show you this truth. And if we can see it at all, then this is cause for doxology, for praise, for thanksgiving! Amen.
Matthew 3:1-12: Advent Disappointment – Advent 2A
While preparing some food in the kitchen the day before Thanksgiving some years back, I had the radio on and caught most of an interview with the New Testament theologian John Dominic Crossan. Crossan was once one of the leading scholars in the Jesus Seminar and is renowned for both his scholarship and his […]
Ephesians 5:15-20
Proper 15B
[…] Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus.” Since this is part of what Paul calls God’s “will” for God’s beloved people, it suggests that thanksgiving for everything is part of both what glorifies God and that for which God creates us. God’s image-bearers display God’s likeness when we give thanks for […]
John 1:(1-9), 10-18
Christmas 2A
[…] the corners of their mouths to join the mirth. Because here it is the first Sunday of a new year. For weeks now, starting well before American Thanksgiving even, it’s been all Jesus, all the time. The Muzak pumped into the shopping malls and heard in city centers, the Christmas specials, the long series […]
Psalm 68:1-10, 32-35
Easter 7A
[…] scattering enemies and crushing foes, the Revised Common Lectionary politely has us hopscotch right over such sentiments to focus on the nicer, gentler sentiments of praise and thanksgiving. Most of the time if the Lectionary assigns verses 1-6 and 12-25 of a given chapter, you would not often lose money by betting that verses […]
1 Samuel 2:1-10
Proper 28B
[…] in Year B) While I Samuel 2:1-10 is not part of the book of Psalms, it’s like a psalm in that it’s a song of praise and thanksgiving offered to God. Since Hanna was unable to bear children, she’d vowed to give back to God any son God graciously gave her. So when God […]
Psalm 37:1-11, 39-40
Epiphany 7C
Across the spectrum of poems in the Hebrew Psalter are prayers that fit most every occasion and season in life. Laments, petitions, confessions, praise, thanksgiving; songs that fit happy days and songs that fit rotten days; lyric expressions of trust and bitter cries of abandonment and anger. It’s all in there. That’s an important […]
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