Every week, we’ll supply a curated number of weblog posts that talk to the upcoming lectionary texts to assist spark your creativeness and function a thought accomplice for you. We hope these musings meet you proper the place you might be with a contemporary, daring, and trustworthy witness.
On Luke 12:13-21, the gospel textual content for August 3, 2025:
– Walter Brueggemann, “A Sufficiency Different Than Our Personal“
It seems that the person is just not alone, as he had imagined. He had addressed himself as “Soul,” however now he’s known as by a unique title, “Idiot.”
– Walter Brueggeman, “Providential Tyranny“
The parable (Luke 12:13-21) and the instruction (Luke 12:22-31) collectively summon to an alternate life, they usually summon particularly these of us laden with “benefit” to an alternate life that’s past the damaging interplay of hubris and humiliation.
On Colossians 3:1-11, the epistle for August 3, 2025:
– Walter Brueggeman, “Greed which is Idolatry“
The traditional observe of tithing is a recurring reminder that we at are finest renters or lessees of the goodness of God who holds the entire world in God’s good arms.
On Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16, the epistle for August 10, 2025:
– Walter Brueggeman, “On the Solution to In any other case“
What a phrase, “aside from us”! These dedicated hopers will not be distant from us. They’re linked to us; and we’re linked to them. We’re linked to one another within the “assurance of issues hoped for.” The issues “hoped for” amongst us embrace a viable atmosphere, a workable neighborly economic system, and a functioning amiable civic order
On Genesis 15:1-6, the paired textual content for August 10, 2025:
