Every week, we’ll supply a curated collection 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 trustworthy witness.
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 occasions, 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 Previous Testomony: Isaiah 1:10-18
Church Anew intern Holly Beck, “Find out how to Maintain Gen Z in Your Pews“
I personally know a large number of Gen Z people who’ve left their congregations attributable to inaction about social justice points. If the church desires to maintain Gen Z engaged, congregations and church leaders should make it some extent 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 have got 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 folks, not the youngsters of Israel or the Hebrew folks, or the Philistines. We truly by no means hear of Bedouins within the Bible. However there they’re, or quite, there’s their bread. Made the best way they nonetheless make it in the present day. 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 nicely fortified. Sufficient for a person able to die, to reside one other day.
