Lectionary Q is a resource for clergy and the laity to get ready for the upcoming Sunday using a text from the Revised Common Lectionary. This week’s text is from Jeremiah 31:27-34 and Luke 18:1-8.
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Preparing for Sunday: March 27, 2022
Preparing for Sunday is a weekly time to prepare for Sunday worship. Based on the Revised Common Lectionary, Preparing for Sunday is a time to step away from the busyness of the world and reflect on what God is saying to us.
This week’s text is from Luke 15:1-3 and 11-32.
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Here are some questions to think about the text:
1. Of the three characters in this story, which one do you identify with more, the younger son, the older son or the father?
2. Who is the “prodigal” in this story; the younger son or the father?
3. Are grace and forgiveness fair? Why or why not?
4. Was the older son mad at his brother or his father?
5. Did the father extend grace to both sons? If so, in what ways did he show that grace?
6. Has there been a time when you were forgiven for something? How did that feel?
What are your answers? What are your questions? Feel free to share them by responding to this post in the comments section or sending an email to info@fccsaintpaul.org.
Preparing for Sunday: March 6, 2022
Preparing for Sunday is a resource for clergy and the laity to get ready for the upcoming Sunday using a text from the Revised Common Lectionary. This week’s text is from Luke 4:1-13.
Do you have questions or answers to the questions? Leave them in the comments.
Here are some questions to think about the text:
- The temptation of Jesus is found in the three Synoptic Gospels (Matthew 4:1-11 and Mark 1:12-13). Read the other versions. What is similar in all three stories? What’s different?
- The passage tells us that it is the Spirit that leads Jesus into the desert. Theologian Justo Gonzalez says that “Even while the devil is tempting Jesus, it is God who is ultimately in control, and it is God who not only allows but causes Jesus to be tempted.” Do you agree that God is allowing Jesus to be tempted? Why or why not?
- What is the significance of Jesus being tempted? Does that make him any less the Son of God?
- Theologian Fred Craddock says that good can be found within temptation. He says the devil doesn’t say, “Do you wish to be as the devil?” but, “Do you wish to be as God?” Do you agree or not? How do you see temptation?
- Think of a time when you were tempted? How was it similar to Jesus in the desert? How was it different? How did it change your faith?
What are your answers? What are your questions? Feel free to share them by responding to this post in the comments section or sending an email to info@fccsaintpaul.org.
Preparing for Sunday: February 27, 2022
Preparing for Sunday is a resource for clergy and the laity to get ready for the upcoming Sunday using a text from the Revised Common Lectionary. This week’s text is from Luke 9:28-36.
Do you have questions or answers to the questions? Leave them in the comments.
Here are some questions to think about the text:
- After reading the passage for this week, read the following: Luke 9:23-27. In what ways do these two passages connect?
- Read Exodus 24:12-18. How are these two stories similar? How are they different? How do they ultimately connect?
- Jesus talks to Moses and Elijah about what was going to happen to him in Jerusalem. The word used to describe his death is the world “exodus.” This is the same word that describes the Israelites leaving Egypt. How is Jesus’ upcoming death like the Jews fleeing the Pharaoh?
- Luke is the only gospel that connects the story to prayer. Why is that important?
- What was the reason behind Peter’s talk about building three monuments for the occasion?
- What is the significance of the voice?
What are your answers? What are your questions? Feel free to share them by responding to this post in the comments section or sending an email to info@fccsaintpaul.org.
Preparing for Sunday: February 20, 2022
Preparing for Sunday is a resource for clergy and the laity to get ready for the upcoming Sunday using a text from the Revised Common Lectionary. This week’s text is from Luke 6:27-38.
Do you have questions or answers to the questions? Leave them in the comments.
1. Is love just a feeling, or is it also action?
2. In verse 31 Jesus says the following: “Do to others as you would have them do to you.” This is commonly known as the Golden Rule. What do you think this means to you?
3. Who is an enemy as found in verse 29? What does it mean to love an enemy? How did Christ love his enemies? Is it possible for us to love our enemies?
4. What does it mean to show mercy to people? Can you think of a time mercy was shown to you?
5. What does loving our enemies or giving with no expectations have to do with God’s generosity?
What are your answers? What are your questions? Feel free to share them by responding to this post in the comments section or sending an email to info@fccsaintpaul.org.
Preparing for Sunday: February 13, 2022
Preparing for Sunday is a resource for clergy and the laity to get ready for the upcoming Sunday using a text from the Revised Common Lectionary. This week’s text is from Luke 6:17-26.
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Preparing for Sunday: February 6, 2022
The text for this upcoming Sunday comes from Luke 5:1-11. You can read the text by going here. Watch the video and listen to the questions.
What are your answers? What are your questions? Feel free to share them by responding to this post in the comments section or sending an email to info@fccsaintpaul.org.
Preparing for Sunday: January 30, 2022
The text for this upcoming Sunday comes from Luke 4:21-30. You can read the text by going here. Watch the video and listen to the questions.
What are your answers? What are your questions? Feel free to share them by responding to this post in the comments section or sending an email to info@fccsaintpaul.org.
Marching Orders- May 4, 2014
May 4, 2014- Third Sunday of Easter, Year A
Luke 24:13-25
Food doesn’t just bring needed nourishment to us, but it’s a context that brings people together. I remember eating arroz con pollo and talking in Spanish to my abuela, or grandmother. I remember eating so much soul food that I probably needed angioplasty at a family event in Louisiana a few years back, but it was also a wonderful time to get reaquainted with my southern relatives.
Here in Luke 24 we encounter another story concerning the ressurection. It’s the road to Emmaus where Jesus appears in disguise to two of his disciples. They had thought Jesus was the one that would save them, and now their savior was dead. They told this disguised Jesus that it was already the third day since his death and in Jewish tradition, this meant that the soul had left the body, meaning there was no hope that Jesus would ever come back. These two had lost hope and were alone. They had placed their hopes on this one called Jesus and it had all ended so badly.
Jesus is kept hidden from the two disciples. We don’t know why that is, but it is only at the breaking of the bread that they discovered Jesus was with them all along.
If you want to know who Jesus is, look at the meals Jesus ate. These are the places where he reveals himself to the world. The calling of Matthew the tax collector, the “sinful” woman who annointed Jesus, Zacheus and other events showed a God that cared for the lost, hurting and broken.
This is the savior we worship, one that is made known to us in meals. As followers of Jesus, do our meals, at our communion tables and at all of our tables reveal the something about the Risen Savior?
Sermon: “The Healing Power of Collard Greens”
Sermon: “The Healing Power of Collard Greens”.
I love good food, and it probably shows.
I consider myself lucky to be born in the family that I’m in, because I grew up with two wonderful cooking traditions. On my father’s side is the African American tradition of the Deep South. It’s a tradition of fried chicken, collard greens, mac and cheese, cornbread stuffing and sweet potato pie. It is all fattening and it’s all good.
Continue reading Sermon: “The Healing Power of Collard Greens”.
Come Sunday 