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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.
Psalm 85:4-7 You, the God who can save us, restore us! Stop being angry with us! Will you be mad at us forever? Will you prolong your anger from one generation to the next? Won't you bring us back to life again so that your people can rejoice in you? Show us you faithful love, Lord! Show us your salvation!
Esther 4:12-17 When they told Mordecai Esther's words, he told them to respond to Esther: “Don't think that for one minute, unlike all the other Jews, you'll come out of this alive simply because you are in the palace. In fact, if you don't speak up at this very important time, relief and rescue will appear for the Jews from another place, but you and your family will die. But who knows? Maybe it was for a moment like this that you came to be part of the royal family.” Esther sent back this word to Mordecai: “Go, gather all the Jews who are in Susa and tell them to give up eating to help me be brave. They aren't to eat or drink anything for three whole days, and I myself will do the same, along with my female servants. Then, even though it's against the law, I will go to the king; and if I am to die, then die I will.” Then Mordecai left where he was and did exactly what Esther had ordered him.
Acts 18:5-11 Once Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself fully to the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ. When they opposed him and slandered him, he shook the dust from his clothes in protest and said to them, “You are responsible for your own fates! I'm innocent! From now on I'll go to the Gentiles!” He left the synagogue and went next door to the home of Titius Justus, a Gentile God-worshiper. Crispus, the synagogue leader, and his entire household came to believe in the Lord. Many Corinthians believed and were baptized after listening to Paul. One night the Lord said to Paul in a vision, “Don't be afraid. Continue speaking. Don't be silent. I'm with you and no one who attacks you will harm you, for I have many people in this city. “ So he stayed there for eighteen months, teaching God's word among them.
John 12:37-43 Jesus had done many miraculous signs before the people, but they didn't believe in him. This was to fulfill the word of the prophet Isaiah: Lord, who has believed through our message? To whom is the arm of the Lord fully revealed? Isaiah explains why they couldn't believe: He made their eyes blind and closed their minds so that they might not see with their eyes, and turn their lives around—and I would heal them. Isaiah said these things because he saw Jesus' glory; he spoke about Jesus. Even so many leaders believed in him, but they wouldn't acknowledge their faith because they feared that the Pharisees would expel them from the synagogue. They believed, but they loved human praise more than God's glory.
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