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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.
Ruth 2:8-13 Boaz said to Ruth, “Haven't you understood, my daughter? Don't go glean in another field; Instead, stay here with my young women; Keep your eyes on the field that they are harvesting and go along after them. I've ordered the young men not to assault you.
Whenever you are thirsty, go to the jugs and drink from what the young men have filled.” Then she bowed down, face to the ground, and replied to him, “How is it that I've found favor in your eyes, and that you notice me? I'm an immigrant.”
Boaz responded to her, “Everything that you did for your mother-in-law after your husband's death has been reported fully to me: how you left behind your father, your mother, and the land of your birth, and came to a people you hadn't known beforehand. May the Lord reward you for your deed. May you receive a rich reward from the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you've come to seek refuge.”
She said, “May I continue to find favor in your eyes, sir, because you've comforted me and because you've spoken kindly to your female servant—even though I'm not one of your female servants.”
2 Corinthians 1:3-7 May the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ be blessed! He is the compassionate Father and God of all comfort. He's the one who comforts us in our trouble so that we can comfort other people so that we can comfort other people who are in every kind of trouble. We offer the same comfort that we ourselves received from God. That is because we receive so much comfort through Christ in the same way that we share so many of Christ's sufferings. So if we have trouble, it is to bring you comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is to bring you comfort from the experience of endurance while you go through the same sufferings that we also suffer. Our hope for you is certain, because we know that as you are partners in suffering, so also you are partners in comfort.
Mark 12:28-34 One of the legal experts heard their dispute and saw how well Jesus had answered them. He came over and asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?” Jesus replied, “ The most important one is Israel, listen! Our God is the one Lord, and you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your being, with all your mind, and with all your strength. The second is this, You will love your neighbor as yourself. No other commandment is greater than these.” The legal expert said to him, “Well said, Teacher. Your have truthfully said that God is one and there is no other besides him. And to love God with all of the heart, a full understanding, and all of one's strength, and to love one's
neighbor as oneself is much more important than all kinds of entirely burned offerings and sacrificed.” When Jesus saw that he had answered with wisdom, he said to him, “You aren't far from God's kingdom.”
After that, no one dared to ask him any more questions.
Psalm 85:1-7 Lord, you've been kind to your land; you've changed Jacob's circumstances for the better. You've forgiven your people's wrongdoing; you've covered all their sins. You've stopped being furious; you've turned away from your burning anger. 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 your faithful love, Lord! Give us your salvation!
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