Lectionary Text Study Sabbatheology
Listed below are the Sabbatheologies that travel around the world each week via the Internet.
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Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
Beyond Preferences and Routines Luke 10:1-11, 16-20 Fourth Sunday after Pentecost Analysis by Ben Williams 1After this the Lord appointed seventy others and sent them on ahead of him in pairs to every town and place where he himself intended to go. 2He said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore ask …
Third Sunday after Pentecost
The Kingdom of God is Forever Luke 9:51-62 Third Sunday after Pentecost Analysis by Peter Kevel 51 When the days drew near for him to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem. 52 And he sent messengers ahead of him. On their way they entered a village of the Samaritans to prepare for his …
Second Sunday after Pentecost
Power that Kills and Power that Makes Alive Galatians 3:23-29 Second Sunday after Pentecost Analysis by Glenn L. Monson 23 Now before faith came, we were imprisoned and guarded under the law until faith would be revealed. 24 Therefore the law was our disciplinarian until Christ came, so that we might be reckoned as righteous by faith. …
Holy Trinity Sunday
The Trinity Conspires to Justify Sinners Romans 5:1-5 Holy Trinity Sunday Analysis by James Squire 1Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand; and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. …
Pentecost
Getting Un-clumped Genesis 11:1-9 Pentecost Analysis by Chris Repp 1Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. 2 And as they migrated from the east, they came upon a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. 3 And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” …
Seventh Sunday of Easter
Unfettered Freedom Acts 16: 16-34 Seventh Sunday of Easter Analysis by Jonas Ellison 16One day, as we were going to the place of prayer, we met a slave-girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners a great deal of money by fortune-telling. 17While she followed Paul and us, she would cry out, “These men …
Sixth Sunday of Easter
HELP! I NEED SOMEBODY! Acts 16: 9-15 Sixth Sunday of Easter Analysis by Timothy Hoyer 9During the night Paul had a vision: there stood a man of Macedonia pleading with him and saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.” 10When he had seen the vision, we immediately tried to cross over to Macedonia, being convinced that …
Fifth Sunday of Easter
GOD CLEANS UP OUR PROFANITY Acts 11: 1-18 Fifth Sunday of Easter Analysis by Mark A Marius 1Now the apostles and the believers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also accepted the word of God. 2So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers criticized him, 3saying, “Why did you go to uncircumcised …
Fourth Sunday of Easter
New Garments Acts 9: 36-43 Fourth Sunday of Easter Analysis by Fred Niedner 36 Now in Joppa there was a disciple whose name was Tabitha, which in Greek is Dorcas. She was devoted to good works and acts of charity. 37 At that time she became ill and died. When they had washed her, they laid her …
Third Sunday of Easter
THE WAY Acts 9: 1-6 [7-20] Third Sunday of Easter Analysis by Bruce K Modahl 1Meanwhile Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest 2and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any who belonged to the Way, men or women, …
Second Sunday of Easter
Obeying God, or Obeying Ourselves? Acts 5:27-32 Second Sunday of Easter Analysis by Matthew DeLoera 27 When they had brought them, they had them stand before the council. The high priest questioned them, 28 saying, “We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and you …
Easter Sunday
Impartial, Not Indiscriminate, Love Acts 10:34-43 Easter Sunday/Resurrection of Our Lord Analysis by Lori A. Cornell 34Peter began to speak to [the people]: “I truly understand that God shows no partiality, 35but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him. 36You know the message he sent to the people …
Easter Vigil
Celebrating God’s Love for All Romans 6:3-11 Easter Vigil Analysis by Brad Haugen 3Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4Therefore we have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory …
Good Friday
Between Doubt and Faith Psalm 22 Good Friday Analysis by Stephen E. Albertin 1My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, from the words of my groaning? 2O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer; and by night, but find no rest. 3Yet you …
Maundy Thursday
The Radiant Glow of Compassion John 13:1-17, 31-35 Maundy Thursday Analysis by Cathy Lessmann 1 Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. 2 The devil …
Palm Sunday
A Plundered God Philippians 2:5-11 Palm Sunday Analysis by Matthew Metevelis 5Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, 6who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, 7but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. …
Fifth Sunday in Lent
Assuming Intentions John 12:1-8 Fifth Sunday in Lent Analysis by Ben Williams 1Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the home of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. 2There they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at the table with him. 3Mary took a pound of …
Fourth Sunday in Lent
A Ministry of Reconciliation 2 Corinthians 5:17-21 Fourth Sunday in Lent Analysis by Peter Kevel 17 So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and has; 19 that is, in Christ …
Third Sunday in Lent
Merits versus Mercy Luke 13:1-9 Third Sunday in Lent Analysis by Glenn L. Monson 1 At that very time there were some present who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. 2 He asked them, “Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were worse sinners than …
Second Sunday in Lent
Jesus: Antidote for the Poison of Sin Luke 13:31-35 Second Sunday in Lent Analysis by James Squire 31 At that very hour some Pharisees came and said to him, “Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you.” 32He said to them, “Go and tell that fox for me, ‘Listen, I am casting out demons and …