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’re with a contemporary, daring, and trustworthy witness.
September 14, 2025
Paired: Exodus 32:7-14
Walter Brueggemann, “The Golden Calf and 2020”
Moses interrupts what students name the “lawsuit” of indictment and sentence. Moses dares to query the appropriateness and knowledge of God’s anger. This daring interruption by Moses is so deeply Jewish! It will not occur amongst standard Christians, as a result of standard Christians are excessively pious and deferential. However Moses is resolutely Jewish on this second of covenantal engagement. He is aware of that he can (and should!) tackle God and name God to account. He places two inquiries to God: Why be indignant with this folks that you’ve got made and saved? Why give ammunition to the Egyptians? … The 2 questions of Moses stay unanswered as if YHWH wants time to ponder. With out ready, Moses promptly points three imperatives to God. Sure, imperatives! Flip … out of your anger; Change … your thoughts; Keep in mind … the e-book of Genesis.
Narrative Lectionary: Genesis 21:1-3, 22:1-14
Rev. Dr. Dorothy Wells, “The Story of Abraham and Household Trauma Half 1”
The final encounter between Abraham and Isaac recorded in Genesis takes place when Abraham certain Isaac on the altar, getting ready to sacrifice him to God. For all the arguments that Abraham had beforehand given God for sparing the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah when God is getting ready to destroy them, Abraham met God’s request to sacrifice Isaac with no resistance.
September 21, 2025
Paired: Amos 8:4-7
Rev. Angela Denker, “A Digital House for Non secular Formation”
How can I carry up the wants of those that are trampled upon? How can I inform their tales?
What do I pray when I’m trampled?
When do I confess to being the one who’s trampling upon the needy?
Gospel: Luke 16:1-13
Rev. Dr. Walter Brueggemann, “The Never-ending Work of Contradiction”
Twice within the gospel narrative Jesus declares the last word both/or of his life and educating: You can not serve God and wealth. … This both/or of Jesus just isn’t inflected or certified. It cuts to the center of the selection required by the gospel. … This declaration of Jesus is the topic of the shrewd discerning dialogue of Eugene McCarraher in his e-book, The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism grew to become the Faith of Modernity (2019). The subtitle signifies his topic, one that’s absolutely apparent and proper, that capitalism is “the faith of modernity” in regards to the aggressive state, the ultimacy of the market, and the unfettered predatory freedom of unencumbered people.
