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:
Psalm 82:1-8 God takes his stand in the divine council; he gives judgment among the gods: “How long will you judge unjustly by granting favor to the wicked? Give justice to the lowly and the orphan; maintain the right of the poor and the destitute! Rescue the lowly and needy. Deliver them from the power of the wicked! They don't know; they don't understand; they wander around in the dark. All the earth's foundations shake. I hereby declare, 'You are gods, children of the Most High—all of you! But you will die like mortals; you will fall down like any prince.'” Rise up, God! Judge the earth because you hold all nations in your possession.
Deuteronomy 31:28-32:1-3 “...Assemble all of your tribes' elders and your officials in front of me, so I can speak these words in your hearing, and so I can call heaven and earth as my witnesses against them, because I know that after I'm dead, you will ruin everything, departing from the path I've commanded you. Terrible things will happen to you in the future because you will do evil in the Lord's eyes, aggravating him with the things your hands have made.” Then Moses recited in their entirety the words of this poem in the hearing of the entire assembly of Israel: Heaven! Pay attention and I will speak; Earth! Listen to the words of my mouth. My teaching will fall like raindrops; my speech will settle like dew—like gentle rains on grass, like spring showers on all that is green—because I proclaim the Lord's name: Give praise to our God!
Romans 10:17-21 So, faith comes from listening, but it's listening by means of Christ's message. But I ask you, didn't they hear it? Definitely! Their voice has gone out into the entire earth, and their message has gone out to the corners of the inhabited world. But I ask you again, didn't Israel understand? First, Moses says, I will make you jealous of those who aren't a people, of a people without understanding. And Isaiah even dares to say, I was found by those who didn't look for me.
But he says about Israel, "All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people."
Mark 1:21-27 Jesus and his followers went into Capernaum. Immediately on the Sabbath Jesus entered the synagogue and started teaching. The people were amazed at his teaching, for he was teaching them with authority, not like the legal experts. Suddenly, there in the synagogue, a person with an evil spirit screamed, “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are. You are the holy one from God.” “Silence!” Jesus said, speaking harshly to the demon. “Come out of him!” The unclean spirit shook him and screamed, then it came out. Everyone was shaken and questioned among themselves, “What's this? A new teaching with authority!
He even commands unclean spirits and they obey him!” Right away the news about him spread throughout the entire region of Galilee.
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