I finish work in a week, and we move in the course of the month to come. We’ll be spending a lot of time downsizing, so these blogs may not happen very often at first.
The readings for Sunday week are at the Vanderbilt lectionary site.
Some first impressions of these…
Jeremiah 1:6: “I am only a boy…” A very normal reaction to what may prove to be the call of God. I am 66 and I still often feel that “I am only a boy” when it comes to God-stuff. How would women react in such a case? Maybe the feeling of smallness is made worse by being treated as second class citizens. Or maybe not. The first time we read about Miriam in Exodus (15:20) she’s just getting on with it, unlike Moses who hummed and ha’ed.
1 Corinthians 13: Familiar to many people because it’s often used when people get married. It’s Paul’s great piece of praise for self-giving love. But it needed some grit to make this pearl grow. It had to be written because some of the Christians in Corinth had been so much up themselves.
Luke 4:21-30: Jesus has just read the bit about good news to the poor, and the year of the Lord’s favour, but it turns ugly quickly. He offends the people of his hometown – and he could’ve avoided it if he’d wanted to conduct a charm offensive. Are Jesus’ followers too ‘nice’ sometimes?