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Dr TK Dunn on the Importance of the Old Testament
This is an extract from a longer interview, which I will also embed. I think Dr. Dunn has some valuable comments on the relationship of scripture and what it means for our study. And here’s the full interview from which that was extracted.
Fences: Mending or Rending
The following is a sermon I presented at the Unitarian-Universalist Church of Pensacola on September 11,2005 and originally posted here on September 13, 2005. I’m reposting it because when I went to look for it, I found that the original post had somehow been truncated, and also because there is a one word at a…
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Easter Sunday 2004
Easter Sunday offers us an opportunity to meditate on the joy hope of restoration and renewal. Not only do we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus in the past (John 20:1-18, Luke 24:1-12), and look forward to the resurrection in the future (1 Corinthians 15:19-26), but we can also celebrate the current renewal of salvation in…
First Sunday in Advent, 2003
November 30, 2003 Jeremiah 33:14-16 Psalm 25:1-10 1 Thessalonians 3:9-13 Luke 21:25-36
Thanksgiving Lectionary, 2003
November 27, 2003 Joel 2:21-27 Psalm 126 1 Timothy 2:1-7 Matthew 6:25-33
Lectionary 34, November 23, 2003
2 Samuel 23:1-7 and Psalm 132 or Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14 and Psalm 93 Revelation 1:4b-8 John 18:33-37
Lectionary #33 November 16, 2003
November 16, 2003 1 Samuel 1:4-20 and 1 Samuel 2:1-10 or Daniel 12:1-3 and Psalm 16 Hebrews 10:11-25 Mark 13:1-8
Lectionary #2 November 9, 2003
November 9, 2003 Ruth 3:1-5; 4:13-17 and Psalm 127 Or 1 Kings 17:8-16 and Psalm 146 Hebrews 9:24-28 Mark 12:38-44
All Saints Sunday 2003
(Nov. 2, 2003 ? All Saints Sunday) Ruth 1:1-18 and Psalm 146 Or Deuteronomy 6:1-9 and Psalm 119:1-8 Hebrews 9:11-14 Mark 12:28-34
All Saints Day 2003
(November 1, 2003) Wisdom of Solomon 3:1-9 or Isaiah 25:6-9 and Psalm 24 Revelation 21:1-6a John 11:32-44
23rd Sunday after Pentecost, October 26, 2003
23rd Sunday after Pentecost, October 26 Job 42:1-6, 10-17 and Psalm 34:1-8, (19-22) Or Jeremiah 31:7-9 and Psalm 126 Hebrews 7:23-28 Mark 10:46-52
22nd Sunday after Pentecost; October 19, 2003
22nd Sunday after Pentecost; October 19 Job 38:1-7, (34-41) and Psalm 104:1-9, 24, 35c Or Isaiah 53:4-12 and Psalm 91:9-16 Hebrews 5:1-10 Mark 10:35-45
21st Sunday After Pentecost, 2003
21st Sunday after Pentecost Job 23:1-9, 16-17 and Psalm 22:1-15 or Amos 5:6-7, 10-15 and Psalm 90:12-17 Hebrews 4:12-16 Mark 10:17-31
20th Sunday After Pentecost 2003
20th Sunday after Pentecost Job 1:1; 2:1-10 and Psalm 26 or Genesis 2:18-24 and Psalm 8 Hebrews 1:1-4; 2:5-12 Mark 10:2-16
19th Sunday After Pentecost, 2003
19th Sunday after Pentecost The following are the suggested passages: Esther 7:1-6, 9-10; 9:20-22 and Psalm 124 Or Numbers 11:4-6, 10-16, 24-29 and Psalm 19:7-14 James 5:13-20 Mark 9:38-50
18th Sunday After Pentecost, 2003
18th Sunday after Pentecost The following are the suggested passages: Proverbs 31:10-31 and Psalm 1 or Wisdom of Solomon 1:16-2:1, 12-22 Or Jeremiah 11:18-20 and Psalm 54 James 3:13-4:3, 7-8a Mark 9:30-37
17th Sunday After Pentecost, 2003
September 14, 2003 17th Sunday after Pentecost The following are the suggested passages: Proverbs 1:20-33 and Psalm 19 or Wisdom of Solomon 7:26-8:1 Or Isaiah 50:4-9a and Psalm 116:1-9 James 3:1-12 Mark 8:27-38 Proverbs 1:20-33 This hymn to Wisdom personified is both beautiful and very important to the balance of the church. …
Easter Evening, 2005
Easter Evening, Year A March 27, 2005 I didn’t manage to restart these notes before Lent as I had planned and stated on the web page, but they are restarted now. I am no longer including my working translation so I can focus more on the interpretive process. Where I have worked such translations over…
On Being Christian and Killing People
I was reminded this morning that it was Veteran’s Day, not that I had forgotten, because I got an early note of thanks from my wife, who regularly thanks me for me military service, defending, as she always notes, her freedom. At the same time, I will either read or hear from some Christian friends…
Notes, Style, and References
Purpose: These notes are intended as helps for preachers and Sunday School teachers who wish to work from the Revised Common Lectionary. Though this initial entry is only one week ahead, my aim is to publish them two to three weeks ahead of the date for their use. This is not intended to function as…
Continuing to Revive my Lectionary Notes
A year ago I began to revive this section by using an RSS feed from my various blogs. While that approach has improved my ability to communicate my lectionary study, it didn’t really solve all the problems. Though I call this the Energion.com lectionary page, the writing on the lectionary is entirely my own. The…
Education and Forced Labor or Public Service
Mark has issued a kind of challenge in his things heard post today on Stones Cry Out, regarding the Obama administration’s intent to require public service in high school and college and improve it everywhere else. He points to this post by D. A. Ridgeley at Positive Liberty which quotes Change.gov as saying: The Obama…
Thomas Nelson Book Review Program
I saw this on the evangelical outpost, and went to check it out. When I saw they had the new Orthodox Study Bible, I was hooked. I’ve requested it for my first book and will plan to review it here when I receive it. You can find out more about the program at brb.thomasnelson.com.
Re: Palin – I thought it Might be This
Read some of the comments from other, not anonymous McCain staffers here.
What Have They Done with Jesus – Roundup
I have delayed the final post in my notes on Ben Witherington’s book What Have They Done with Jesus? for quite some time. In the meantime I have read Backham’s book Jesus and the Eyewitnesses [my review]. Bauckham provides a much more coherent account of the principles that it appears Witherington is using, partially because…
Perspective – Talking As If
And Joshua said, “By this you will know that the living God is among you, and that he will certainly drive out from before you the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Perizites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, and the Jebusites.” — Joshua 3:10 The king and his men went to Jerusalem, against the Jebusites who…