Welcome to the Clergywomen's Lectionary Group blog. If you read the sub-heading, you know that this isn's a place to vent about Presbytery or grind any axes, but is forum intended to be a safe environment in which we can share our thoughts and ideas about upcoming lectionary texts. We also need to remember and respect the fact that we come from a wide range of theological points of view, and that this isn't a place to argue theology but to share ideas-- ideally everyone should feel free to write from their own POV without fear of censorship or ridicule. This blog is a work in progress, so jump in and let's see where it goes!
This week is the first Sunday in Lent. The texts for this week are;
Deuteronomy 26:1-11: After years of living in slavery in Egypt and the hardships of the wilderness, the people of Isreal are called to celebrate the land of plentyin thanksgiving before God.
Psalm 91:1-2, 9-16
Romans 10:8b-13: Paul assures his listeners that, whether they be Jew or Greek, there is one Lord of all.
Luke 4:1-13: Jesus, fasting in the wilderness, overcomes the temptations of evil.
(Synopses are from Prayers for the Seasons or God's People: Worship Aids for the Revised Common Lectionary Year C by B. David Hostetter
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I'm not on lectionary right now-- we're doing this program called The Bible in Ninety Days, which is awesome, by the way-- but we did include Psalm 91 (whole thing) in worship last week. My other text is Proverbs 9-- the invitations of Wisdom and Folly. They're both women. No idea what I'm going to say about them, but I think the whole personification of wisdom as female is really cool and wanted to bring it up in a worshipful way.
Any of y'all ever preached on proverbs?
I have preached on Proverbs, but it's been a few years, and I've slept since then. But I remember talking about Lady Wisdom being a central character.
I'm using (sort of) the Luke 4 text this week and talking about sin as "lostness" -- beginning in the garden, continuing into the wilderness. And, in the words of Joni Mitchell, what we all want is to "get back to the garden."
Looking for some contemp. illustrations/examples of lostness. Any ideas?
Emily
The very first thing that comes to mind are the way lostness has shown up in celebrities in the last couple of weeks. The death of Anna Nicole Smith and the weird stuff that Britney Spears is doing (shaving her head, etc.)-- and the media response to them-- says to me that they were very lost women-- lost to themselves, lost to anything much that's real in life.
Sharon
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