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 accomplice for you. We hope these musings meet you proper the place you’re with a contemporary, daring, and devoted witness.
November 9, 2025
Narrative Lectionary: Amos 1:1-2; 5:14-15, 21-24
Rev. Dr. Walter Brueggemann, “Two Farmers…Two Methods”
By chapter 5 the Ebook of Amos points a sequence of imperatives that echo the crucial summons of Moses, Joshua, and Elijah: Search me and dwell (v. 4). Search the Lord and dwell (v. 6). Search good and never evil, that you could be dwell (v. 14). Hate evil and love good, and set up justice within the gate (v. 15). The development of the rhetoric is from “me” to “YHWH” to “good” to “good” to “justice.” The phrases are all of a bit. YHWH is the supply and embodiment of excellent; the substance of “good” is justice. The follow of YHWH-based justice is life. All that contradicts this neighbor-inclined justice is anti-life and can finish in loss of life.
November 16, 2025
Semi-continuous Previous Testomony: Isaiah 65:17-25
Rev. Dr. Walter Brueggemann, “The Discomforting Present of Newness”
This new Jerusalem is just not some heavenly escape. It’s, somewhat, a viable metropolis the place society is marked in wholesome methods: by an absence of toddler mortality (Isaiah 65:20); by a viable peaceful financial system absent of predatory menace (vv. 21-22); by wholesome youngster bearing, through which each mom and youngster are saved secure (v. 23); by the acute attentiveness of God to their prayers (v. 24); and by a full reconciliation of all elements of the atmosphere (v. 25).
