Reflections for

20th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Aug 18, 2013

Isaiah 5:1-7; Psalm 80:1-2, 8-19; (Jeremiah 23:23-29; Psalm 82;) Hebrews 11:29-12:2; Luke 12:49-56

Blogging Toward Sunday

Blogging toward Sunday

Isaiah 5:1-7; Hebrews 11:29-12:2; Luke 12:49-56

Jul 13, 2007 by Jo Bailey Wells

I was teaching a class on Isaiah and we had reached chapter 40,”Every valley shall be exalted.” A student piped up, “So Isaiah borrowed these words from Handel?” He was reading the Old Testament in the light of “new” history. In Isaiah I find it hard not to read the Old Testament in the light of the new—the New Testament, that is.

Living by the Word

Disturbing the peace

Luke 12:49-56

Aug 10, 2004 by Teresa Berger

In this reading from Luke we confront stark and conflictual sayings of Jesus that sit poorly with contemporary images of God. Our culture seems to prize a God with an infinite capacity for empathy, a God who is “nice.” Luke challenges this thinking. He offers a glimpse of redemption for a world that is anything but nice—and that needs much more than a nice God to redeem it.

Living by the Word

Slaying the hobgoblins

Sunday, August 19. Luke 12:49-56

Aug 01, 2001 by Garret Keizer

Though I eventually left the Reformed Church in which I was raised, I did so with a debt of gratitude, most notably for one rather conservative pastor who had met my youthful rebellions with untiring patience.

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