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The Tuesday Lectionary Group invites you to share some of your favorite scriptures, which we will then share with all members.
Please email them to:
maryann13fenstermacher@gmail.com.
Here are this week's scriptures for study and meditation:
Judges 13:17-24 Manoah said to the Lord's messenger, “What's your name, so that we may honor you when your words come true?” The Lord's messenger responded to him, “Why do you ask my name? You couldn't understand it.” So Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered them on a rock to the Lord. While Manoah and his wife were looking, an amazing thing happened: as the flame from the altar went up toward the sky, the Lord's messenger went up in the altar's flame. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell facedown on the ground. The Lord's messenger didn't reappear to Manoah or his wife, and Manoah then realized that it had been the Lord's messenger. Manoah said to his wife, “We are
certainly going to die, because we've seen God!” But his wife replied to him, “If the Lord wanted to kill us, he wouldn't have accepted the entirely burned offering and grain offering from our hands. He wouldn't have shown us all of these things or told us or told us all of this now.” The woman gave birth to a son and named him Samson. The boy grew up, and the Lord blessed him.
Psalm 90:13-17 Come back to us, Lord! Please, quick! Have some compassion for your servants! Fill us every morning with your faithful love so that we can rejoice and celebrate our whole life long. Make us happy for the same amount of time that you afflicted us—for the same number of years that we saw trouble. Let you acts be seen by your servants; let your glory be seen by your children. Let the kindness of the Lord our God be over us. Make the work of our hands last! Make the work of our hands last!
Acts 5:27-32 The apostles were brought before the council where the high priest confronted them: “In no uncertain terms, we demanded that you not teach in this name. And look at you! You have filled Jerusalem with your teaching. And you are determined to hold us responsible for that man's death.” Peter and the apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than humans! The God of our ancestors raised Jesus from the dead—whom you killed by hanging him on a tree. God has exalted Jesus to his right side as leader and savior so that he could enable Israel to change its heart and life and to find forgiveness forgiveness for sins. We are witnesses to such things, as is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”
John 1:43-51 The next day Jesus wanted to go into Galilee, and he found Philip. Jesus said to him, “Follow me.” Philip was from Bethsaida, the hometown of Andrew and Peter. Philip found Nathaniel and said to him. “We have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law and the Prophets: Jesus, Joseph's son, from Nazareth.” Nathaniel responded, “Can anything from Nazareth be good?” Philip said, “Come and see.” Jesus saw Nathaniel coming toward him and said about him, “Here is a genuine Israelite in whom there is no deceit.” Nathaniel asked him, “How do you know me?” Jesus answered, “Before Philip called you, I saw you under the fig tree.” Nathaniel replied, “Rabbi, you are God's Son. You are the king of Israel.” Jesus answered, “Do you believe because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than these! I assure you that you will see heaven open and God's angels going up to heaven and down to earth on the Human One.”
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