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 companion for you. We hope these musings meet you proper the place you might be with a recent, daring, and devoted witness.
October 26, 2025
Semi-continuous: Psalm 65
Rev. Dr. Walter Brueggemann, “Reflecting Awe: Intersecting Pietism, Religion, and Science”
In fact the truth of “awe” just isn’t new in spiritual consciousness, even when it strikes one as new in a “scientific” perspective. The rendering of awe in biblical poetry is thru the singing of doxology within the recognition that the bottom, backside, and floor of what we’re is rooted in a actuality aside from us.
Reformation Sunday
Rev. Meta Herrick Carlson, “The Reality About Reformation”
When scripture will get within the arms of the individuals,
reformation rekindles and sparks
from embers of a religion that at all times finds
new phrases and methods and can for asking:
What does that imply?
Outdated Testomony: Jeremiah 31:31-34
Rev. Dr. Walter Brueggemann, “To Hope Once more”
Once more, the restoration of civic group and its rituals of pleasure and wellbeing;
Once more, the infrastructure of the group will perform successfully.
Once more, the long-standing habits of agriculture will resume.
God just isn’t restricted by or imprisoned in current circumstance. God acts in devoted freedom.
November 2, 2025
Semi-continuous Psalm: Psalm 119:137-144
Rev. Dr. Walter Brueggemann, “The Empowering, Illuminating Phrase From Elsewhere”
Psalm 119, nonetheless, is outstanding. In all the opposite circumstances of acrostic every letter of the Hebrew alphabet happens as soon as in sequence. In Psalm 119, against this, every letter will get eight successive strains. Thus with twenty-two letters within the alphabet, and every letter reiterated eight instances, we get a sum of 176 verses. It’s for that motive that the Psalm is so lengthy.…Sadly none of that is evident in English translation.
Paired Outdated Testomony: Isaiah 1:10-18
Church Anew intern Holly Beck, “Learn how to Preserve Gen Z in Your Pews“
I personally know a large number of Gen Z people who’ve left their congregations as a result of inaction about social justice points. If the church desires to maintain Gen Z engaged, congregations and church leaders should make it a degree to do the required work for justice.
Gospel: Luke 19:1-10
Rev. Dr. Eric D. Barreto, “A Desk and a Promise”
This desk is for all. No exclusion. No reservation wanted. Cost just isn’t accepted as a result of the desk is open and free and bountiful. As I as soon as learn, “When you’ve greater than you want, don’t construct a better fence, construct a much bigger desk.”
Narrative Lectionary: 1 Kings 19:1-18
Rev. Winnie Varghese, “A Stroll in Magnificence”
Elijah finds bread when he awakes within the wilderness, Bedouin bread. Native individuals, not the kids of Israel or the Hebrew individuals, or the Philistines. We truly by no means hear of Bedouins within the Bible. However there they’re, or moderately, there’s their bread. Made the way in which they nonetheless make it at this time. There are nonetheless Bedouin, from Morocco to Iraq however primarily precisely the place they’re on this story, or the place their bread is, the Sinai space. A bread left for the person of God, loads of it, and a vessel of water, for the fleeing man, the stranger. Sufficient for a really hungry man to eat twice and be effectively fortified. Sufficient for a person able to die, to reside one other day.
All Saints’ Day
Pastor Peter Wallace, “Unlikely Saints”
Who’re your saints? Who involves your coronary heart and thoughts on All Saints Sunday? All Saints Sunday provides us a really private method to speak concerning the current and future by speaking concerning the previous. Who’re we? Who will we wish to be? These saints from our previous give us a method to speak about the place we’re and the place we’re headed.
