Every week, we’ll supply a curated choice 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 contemporary, daring, and trustworthy witness.
October 5, 2025
Semicontinuous: Lamentations 1:1-6, 3:19-26
Rev. Dr. Walter Brueggemann, “The Sluggish Velocity of Consolation?”
My studying … received me to serious about a society that has given up its capability for empathy and compassion as a result of it has opted for scale and pace. Thus is occurred to me that historic Israel, in its painful damaging displacement within the sixth century BCE exile discovered itself in simply such a world, one devoid of empathy and compassion. That world didn’t have the Web, but it surely had its personal practices of pace and scale that served a like function.
Semicontinuous: Psalm 147
Rev. Dr. Walter Brueggemann, “The Discomforting Reward of Newness”
In his exceptional, vital guide, Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Current Historical past (2020), Kurt Andersen has traced the planning of a political celebration to take over the federal government. Close to the top of his guide, Andersen lists eight claims within the playbook that he believes generate their motion. … The second declare is perception in our good legendary yesteryear. This declare is the want or hope to flee a gift social actuality into an imagined previous that was discovered to be extra congenial and fewer demanding. Such an train in nostalgia is very selective in regards to the previous, with a capability to overlook or deny the numerous liabilities of that previous for the sake of a fake world. On this planet of historic Israel, the act of escapist nostalgia is on exhibit in Psalm 137.
Gospel: Luke 17:5-10
Rev. Erin Raffety, “The $4000 Impact”
However as a way to proceed to thrive, we all know much more absolutely now that we can’t play small with all that God has given us. How will your church actually belief God together with your unsure future? How will your church select to spend money on not what is thought however what is feasible? How will your church select thriving even when you already know not what it’s or the place it’ll lead?
Narrative Lectionary: Exodus 16:1-18
Rev. Dr. Walter Brueggemann, “Bread Shared With All The Eaters”
Together with the prospect of bread, additionally they had been promised that they’d see “the glory of the Lord” (16:7). What a shock that match none of their expectations: God’s glory within the wilderness! They’d assumed that God’s glory, together with pomp and circumstance, was all again within the land of Pharaoh. They’d seen God’s glory in reference to unequal splendor and wealth. However now they realized a radical new dimension of the God of the Exodus. It seems that the pure habitat of God is just not in Pharaoh’s court docket, however within the wilderness.
October 12, 2025
