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 associate for you. We hope these musings meet you proper the place you might be with a recent, daring, and trustworthy witness.
August 17, 2025
Epistle: Hebrews 11:29-12:2
Amar Peterman, “We Are Not Alone This Lent” [Editor’s note: his reflection applies to other seasons too!]
For believers right this moment, this nice cloud of witnesses absolutely consists of the saints of the Scriptures, however it additionally consists of the saints of our current previous. … These embrace the saints deemed chattel who labored on the plantation, who suffered below exclusion and racism, who fought for the abolition of slavery, who had been martyred for pursuing justice – all of them stand as a cloud of witnesses round us as we proceed of their work.
August 24, 2025
Paired Psalm: Psalm 103:1-8
Walter Brueggemann, “Therapeutic…with out Cash, with out Worth (Evil Geniuses Sequence)”
In fact the church … is aware of that God’s transformative work is on the identical time human transformative work. It’s trustworthy human duty to be concerning the job, because the Psalm says, of forgiveness, therapeutic, redemption, crowning, and satisfying.
