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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:
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? Won't you bring us back to life again so that your people can rejoice in you? Show us you faithful love, Lord! Give us your salvation!
Job 2:9-13 Job's wife said to him, “Are you still clinging to your integrity? Curse God and die.” Job said to her, “You're talking like a foolish woman. Will we receive good from God but not also receive bad?” In all this, Job didn't sin with his lips. When Job's three friends heard about all this disaster that had happened to him, they came, each one from his home—Eliphaz from Teman, Bildad from Shuah, and Zophar from Naamah. They agreed to come so that they could console and comfort him. When they looked up from a distance and didn't recognize him, they wept loudly. Each one tore his garment and scattered dust above his head toward the sky. They sat with Job on the ground seven days and seven nights, not speaking a word to him, for they saw that he was in excruciating pain.
Acts 9:15-19 The Lord replied, “Go! This man is the agent I have chosen to carry my name before Gentiles, kings, and Israelites. I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name.” Ananias went to the house. He placed his hands on Saul and said, “Brother Saul, the Lord has sent me—Jesus, who appeared to you on the way as you were coming here. He sent me so that you could see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit.” Instantly, flakes fell from Saul's eyes and he could see again. He got up and was baptized. After eating, he regained his strength.
Mark 6:1-6 Jesus left that place and came to his hometown. His disciples followed him. On the Sabbath, he began to preach in the synagogue. Many who heard him were surprised. “Where did this man get all this? What's this wisdom he's been given? What about the powerful acts accomplished through him? Isn't this the carpenter? Isn't he Mary's son and the brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? Aren't his sisters here with us?” They were repulsed by him and fell into sin. Jesus said to them, “Prophets are honored everywhere except in their own hometowns, among their own relatives, and in their own households.” He was unable to do any miracles there, except that he placed his hands on a few sick people and healed them. He was appalled by their disbelief.
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