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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 80:14-19 Please come back, God of heavenly forces! Look down from heaven and perceive it! Attend to this vine, this root you planted with your very strong hand, this son whom you secured as your very own. It is burned with fire. It is chopped down. They die at the rebuke coming from you. Let your hand be with the one on your right side—the one whom you secured as your own--then we will not turn away from you! Revive us so that we can call on your name. Restore us, Lord God of heavenly forces! Make your face shine so that we can be saved!
1 Samuel 10:10-16 When Saul and the boy got to Gibeah, there was a group of prophets coming to meet him. God's spirit came over Saul, and he was caught up in a prophetic frenzy right along with them. When all the people who had known Saul saw him prophesying along with the prophets, they said to each other, “What's happened to Kish's son? Is Saul also one of the prophets?” One of the locals then asked, “And who is their leader?” So it became a proverb: “Is Saul also one of the prophets?” When the prophetic frenzy was over, Saul went home. Saul's uncle said to him and his young servant, “Where did you go?” “To look for the donkeys,” Saul replied, “but when we couldn't find anything, we went to Samuel.” “Please tell me what Samuel told you,” Saul's uncle said. “He reassured us that the donkeys had been found,” Saul answered. But Saul didn't tell his uncle what Samuel had said about the kingship.
Luke 23:8-12 Herod was very glad to see Jesus, for he had heard about Jesus and has wanted to see him for quite some time. He was hoping to see Jesus perform some sign. Herod questioned Jesus at length, but Jesus wouldn't respond to him. The chief priests and legal experts were there, fiercely accusing Jesus. Herod and his soldiers treated Jesus with contempt. Herod mocked him by dressing him in elegant clothes and sent him back to Pilate. Pilate and Herod became friends with each other that day. Before this, they had been enemies.
Romans 4:13-16 The promise to Abraham and his descendants, that he would inherit the world, didn't come through the Law but through the righteousness that comes from faith. If they inherit because of the Law, then faith has no effect and the promise has been canceled. The Law brings about wrath. But when there isn't any law, there isn't any violation of the law. That's why the inheritance comes through faith, so that it will be on the basis of God's grace. In this way, the promise is secure for all of Abraham's descendants, not just for those who are related by Law but for those who are related by the faith of Abraham, who is the father of all of us.
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