2019-03 Lectionary Slides
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2019-03-03
2019-03-03
29 When Moses went down from Mount Sinai carrying the Ten Commandments, his face was shining because he had been speaking with the Lord; but he did not know it.
30 Aaron and all the people looked at Moses and saw that his face was shining, and they were afraid to go near him.
31 But Moses called them, and Aaron and all the leaders of the community went to him, and Moses spoke to them.
32 After that, all the people of Israel gathered round him, and Moses gave them all the laws that the Lord had given him on Mount Sinai.
33 When Moses had finished speaking to them, he covered his face with a veil.
34 Whenever Moses went into the Tent of the Lord’s presence to speak to the Lord, he took the veil off. When he came out, he would tell the people of Israel everything that he had been commanded to say,
35 and they would see that his face was shining. Then he would put the veil back on until the next time he went to speak to the Lord.
1 The Lord is king; and the people tremble. He is enthroned above the winged creatures and the earth shakes.
2 The Lord is mighty in Zion; he is supreme over all the nations.
3 Everyone will praise his great and majestic name. Holy is he!
4 Mighty king, you love what is right; you have established justice in Israel; you have brought righteousness and fairness.
5 Praise the Lord our God; worship before his throne! Holy is he!
6 Moses and Aaron were his priests, and Samuel was one who prayed to him; they called to the Lord, and he answered them.
7 He spoke to them from the pillar of cloud; they obeyed the laws and commands that he gave them.
8 O Lord, our God, you answered your people; you showed them that you are a God who forgives, even though you punished them for their sins.
9 Praise the Lord our God, and worship at his sacred hill! The Lord our God is holy.
12 Because we have this hope, we are very bold.
13 We are not like Moses, who had to put a veil over his face so that the people of Israel would not see the brightness fade and disappear.
14 Their minds, indeed, were closed; and to this very day their minds are covered with the same veil as they read the books of the old covenant. The veil is removed only when a person is joined to Christ.
15 Even today, whenever they read the Law of Moses, the veil still covers their minds.
16 But it can be removed, as the scripture says about Moses: “His veil was removed when he turned to the Lord.”
17 Now, “the Lord” in this passage is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is present, there is freedom.
18 All of us, then, reflect the glory of the Lord with uncovered faces; and that same glory, coming from the Lord, who is the Spirit, transforms us into his likeness in an ever greater degree of glory.
1 God in his mercy has given us this work to do, and so we are not discouraged.
2 We put aside all secret and shameful deeds; we do not act with deceit, nor do we falsify the word of God. In the full light of truth we live in God’s sight and try to commend ourselves to everyone’s good conscience.
28 About a week after he had said these things, Jesus took Peter, John, and James with him and went up a hill to pray.
29 While he was praying, his face changed its appearance, and his clothes became dazzling white.
30 Suddenly two men were there talking with him. They were Moses and Elijah,
31 who appeared in heavenly glory and talked with Jesus about the way in which he would soon fulfill God’s purpose by dying in Jerusalem.
32 Peter and his companions were sound asleep, but they woke up and saw Jesus’ glory and the two men who were standing with him.
33 As the men were leaving Jesus, Peter said to him, “Master, how good it is that we are here! We will make three tents, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.” (He did not really know what he was saying.)
34 While he was still speaking, a cloud appeared and covered them with its shadow; and the disciples were afraid as the cloud came over them.
35 A voice said from the cloud, “This is my Son, whom I have chosen—listen to him!”
36 When the voice stopped, there was Jesus all alone. The disciples kept quiet about all this, and told no one at that time anything they had seen.
2019-03-10
2019-03-10
1 “After you have occupied the land that the Lord your God is giving you and have settled there,
2 each of you must place in a basket the first part of each crop that you harvest and you must take it with you to the one place of worship.
3 Go to the priest in charge at that time and say to him, ‘I now acknowledge to the Lord my God that I have entered the land that he promised our ancestors to give us.’
4 “The priest will take the basket from you and place it before the altar of the Lord your God.
5 Then, in the Lord’s presence you will recite these words: ‘My ancestor was a wandering Aramean, who took his family to Egypt to live. They were few in number when they went there, but they became a large and powerful nation.
6 The Egyptians treated us harshly and forced us to work as slaves.
7 Then we cried out for help to the Lord, the God of our ancestors. He heard us and saw our suffering, hardship, and misery.
8 By his great power and strength he rescued us from Egypt. He worked miracles and wonders, and caused terrifying things to happen.
9 He brought us here and gave us this rich and fertile land.
10 So now I bring to the Lord the first part of the harvest that he has given me.’ “Then set the basket down in the Lord’s presence and worship there.
11 Be grateful for the good things that the Lord your God has given you and your family; and let the Levites and the foreigners who live among you join in the celebration.
1 Whoever goes to the Lord for safety, whoever remains under the protection of the Almighty,
2 can say to him, “You are my defender and protector. You are my God; in you I trust.”
9 You have made the Lord your defender, the Most High your protector,
10 and so no disaster will strike you, no violence will come near your home.
11 God will put his angels in charge of you to protect you wherever you go.
12 They will hold you up with their hands to keep you from hurting your feet on the stones.
13 You will trample down lions and snakes, fierce lions and poisonous snakes.
14 God says, “I will save those who love me and will protect those who acknowledge me as Lord.
15 When they call to me, I will answer them; when they are in trouble, I will be with them. I will rescue them and honour them.
16 I will reward them with long life; I will save them.”
8 What it says is this: “God’s message is near you, on your lips and in your heart”—that is, the message of faith that we preach.
9 If you confess that Jesus is Lord and believe that God raised him from death, you will be saved.
10 For it is by our faith that we are put right with God; it is by our confession that we are saved.
11 The scripture says, “Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed.”
12 This includes everyone, because there is no difference between Jews and Gentiles; God is the same Lord of all and richly blesses all who call to him.
13 As the scripture says, “Everyone who calls out to the Lord for help will be saved.”
1 Jesus returned from the Jordan full of the Holy Spirit and was led by the Spirit into the desert,
2 where he was tempted by the Devil for 40 days. In all that time he ate nothing, so that he was hungry when it was over.
3 The Devil said to him, “If you are God’s Son, order this stone to turn into bread.”
4 But Jesus answered, “The scripture says, ‘Human beings cannot live on bread alone.’ ”
5 Then the Devil took him up and showed him in a second all the kingdoms of the world.
6 “I will give you all this power and all this wealth,” the Devil told him. “It has all been handed over to me, and I can give it to anyone I choose.
7 All this will be yours, then, if you worship me.”
8 Jesus answered, “The scripture says, ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve only him!’ ”
9 Then the Devil took him to Jerusalem and set him on the highest point of the Temple, and said to him, “If you are God’s Son, throw yourself down from here.
10 For the scripture says, ‘God will order his angels to take good care of you.’
11 It also says, ‘They will hold you up with their hands so that not even your feet will be hurt on the stones.’ ”
12 But Jesus answered, “The scripture says, ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’ ”
13 When the Devil finished tempting Jesus in every way, he left him for a while.
2019-03-17
2019-03-17
1 After this, Abram had a vision and heard the Lord say to him, “Do not be afraid, Abram. I will shield you from danger and give you a great reward.”
2 But Abram answered, “Sovereign Lord, what good will your reward do me, since I have no children? My only heir is Eliezer of Damascus.
3 You have given me no children, and one of my slaves will inherit my property.”
4 Then he heard the Lord speaking to him again: “This slave Eliezer will not inherit your property; your own son will be your heir.”
5 The Lord took him outside and said, “Look at the sky and try to count the stars; you will have as many descendants as that.”
6 Abram put his trust in the Lord, and because of this the Lord was pleased with him and accepted him.
7 Then the Lord said to him, “I am the Lord, who led you out of Ur in Babylonia, to give you this land as your own.”
8 But Abram asked, “Sovereign Lord, how can I know that it will be mine?”
9 He answered, “Bring me a cow, a goat, and a ram, each of them three years old, and a dove and a pigeon.”
10 Abram brought the animals to God, cut them in half, and placed the halves opposite each other in two rows; but he did not cut up the birds.
11 Vultures came down on the bodies, but Abram drove them off.
12 When the sun was going down, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and fear and terror came over him.
17 When the sun had set and it was dark, a smoking fire-pot and a flaming torch suddenly appeared and passed between the pieces of the animals.
18 Then and there the Lord made a covenant with Abram. He said, “I promise to give your descendants all this land from the border of Egypt to the River Euphrates,
1 The Lord is my light and my salvation; I will fear no one. The Lord protects me from all danger; I will never be afraid.
2 When evil people attack me and try to kill me, they stumble and fall.
3 Even if a whole army surrounds me, I will not be afraid; even if enemies attack me, I will still trust God.
4 I have asked the Lord for one thing; one thing only do I want: to live in the Lord’s house all my life, to marvel there at his goodness, and to ask for his guidance.
5 In times of trouble he will shelter me; he will keep me safe in his Temple and make me secure on a high rock.
6 So I will triumph over my enemies around me. With shouts of joy I will offer sacrifices in his Temple; I will sing, I will praise the Lord.
7 Hear me, Lord, when I call to you! Be merciful and answer me!
8 When you said, “Come and worship me,” I answered, “I will come, Lord;
9 don’t hide yourself from me!” Don’t be angry with me; don’t turn your servant away. You have been my help; don’t leave me, don’t abandon me, O God, my saviour.
10 My father and mother may abandon me, but the Lord will take care of me.
11 Teach me, Lord, what you want me to do, and lead me along a safe path, because I have many enemies.
12 Don’t abandon me to my enemies, who attack me with lies and threats.
13 I know that I will live to see the Lord’s goodness in this present life.
14 Trust in the Lord. Have faith, do not despair. Trust in the Lord.
17 Keep on imitating me, my brothers and sisters. Pay attention to those who follow the right example that we have set for you.
18 I have told you this many times before, and now I repeat it with tears: there are many whose lives make them enemies of Christ’s death on the cross.
19 They are going to end up in hell, because their god is their bodily desires. They are proud of what they should be ashamed of, and they think only of things that belong to this world.
20 We, however, are citizens of heaven, and we eagerly wait for our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, to come from heaven.
21 He will change our weak mortal bodies and make them like his own glorious body, using that power by which he is able to bring all things under his rule.
1 So then, my brothers and sisters, how dear you are to me and how I miss you! How happy you make me, and how proud I am of you! This then, dear brothers and sisters, is how you should stand firm in your life in the Lord.
31 At that same time some Pharisees came to Jesus and said to him, “You must get out of here and go somewhere else, because Herod wants to kill you.”
32 Jesus answered them, “Go and tell that fox: ‘I am driving out demons and performing cures today and tomorrow, and on the third day I shall finish my work.’
33 Yet I must be on my way today, tomorrow, and the next day; it is not right for a prophet to be killed anywhere except in Jerusalem.
34 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You kill the prophets, you stone the messengers God has sent you! How many times have I wanted to put my arms round all your people, just as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would not let me!
35 And so your Temple will be abandoned. I assure you that you will not see me until the time comes when you say, ‘God bless him who comes in the name of the Lord.’ ”
28 About a week after he had said these things, Jesus took Peter, John, and James with him and went up a hill to pray.
29 While he was praying, his face changed its appearance, and his clothes became dazzling white.
30 Suddenly two men were there talking with him. They were Moses and Elijah,
31 who appeared in heavenly glory and talked with Jesus about the way in which he would soon fulfill God’s purpose by dying in Jerusalem.
32 Peter and his companions were sound asleep, but they woke up and saw Jesus’ glory and the two men who were standing with him.
33 As the men were leaving Jesus, Peter said to him, “Master, how good it is that we are here! We will make three tents, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.” (He did not really know what he was saying.)
34 While he was still speaking, a cloud appeared and covered them with its shadow; and the disciples were afraid as the cloud came over them.
35 A voice said from the cloud, “This is my Son, whom I have chosen—listen to him!”
36 When the voice stopped, there was Jesus all alone. The disciples kept quiet about all this, and told no one at that time anything they had seen.
2019-03-24
2019-03-24
1 The Lord says, “Come, everyone who is thirsty— here is water! Come, you that have no money— buy corn and eat! Come! Buy wine and milk— it will cost you nothing!
2 Why spend money on what does not satisfy? Why spend your wages and still be hungry? Listen to me and do what I say, and you will enjoy the best food of all.
3 “Listen now, my people, and come to me; come to me, and you will have life! I will make a lasting covenant with you and give you the blessings I promised to David.
4 I made him a leader and commander of nations, and through him I showed them my power.
5 Now you will summon foreign nations; at one time they did not know you, but now they will come running to join you! I, the Lord your God, the holy God of Israel, will make all this happen; I will give you honour and glory.”
6 Turn to the Lord and pray to him, now that he is near.
7 Let the wicked leave their way of life and change their way of thinking. Let them turn to the Lord, our God; he is merciful and quick to forgive.
8 “My thoughts,” says the Lord, “are not like yours, and my ways are different from yours.
9 As high as the heavens are above the earth, so high are my ways and thoughts above yours.
1 O God, you are my God, and I long for you. My whole being desires you; like a dry, worn-out, and waterless land, my soul is thirsty for you.
2 Let me see you in the sanctuary; let me see how mighty and glorious you are.
3 Your constant love is better than life itself, and so I will praise you.
4 I will give you thanks as long as I live; I will raise my hands to you in prayer.
5 My soul will feast and be satisfied, and I will sing glad songs of praise to you.
6 As I lie in bed, I remember you; all night long I think of you,
7 because you have always been my help. In the shadow of your wings I sing for joy.
8 I cling to you, and your hand keeps me safe.
1 I want you to remember, my brothers and sisters, what happened to our ancestors who followed Moses. They were all under the protection of the cloud, and all passed safely through the Red Sea.
2 In the cloud and in the sea they were all baptized as followers of Moses.
3 All ate the same spiritual bread
4 and drank the same spiritual drink. They drank from the spiritual rock that went with them; and that rock was Christ himself.
5 But even then God was not pleased with most of them, and so their dead bodies were scattered over the desert.
6 Now, all this is an example for us, to warn us not to desire evil things, as they did,
7 nor to worship idols, as some of them did. As the scripture says, “The people sat down to a feast which turned into an orgy of drinking and sex.”
8 We must not be guilty of sexual immorality, as some of them were—and in one day 23,000 of them fell dead.
9 We must not put the Lord to the test, as some of them did—and they were killed by snakes.
10 We must not complain, as some of them did—and they were destroyed by the Angel of Death.
11 All these things happened to them as examples for others, and they were written down as a warning for us. For we live at a time when the end is about to come.
12 Those who think they are standing firm had better be careful that they do not fall.
13 Every test that you have experienced is the kind that normally comes to people. But God keeps his promise, and he will not allow you to be tested beyond your power to remain firm; at the time you are put to the test, he will give you the strength to endure it, and so provide you with a way out.
1 At that time some people were there who told Jesus about the Galileans whom Pilate had killed while they were offering sacrifices to God.
2 Jesus answered them, “Because those Galileans were killed in that way, do you think it proves that they were worse sinners than all the other Galileans?
3 No indeed! And I tell you that if you do not turn from your sins, you will all die as they did.
4 What about those eighteen people in Siloam who were killed when the tower fell on them? Do you suppose this proves that they were worse than all the other people living in Jerusalem?
5 No indeed! And I tell you that if you do not turn from your sins, you will all die as they did.”
6 Then Jesus told them this parable: “There was once a man who had a fig tree growing in his vineyard. He went looking for figs on it but found none.
7 So he said to his gardener, ‘Look, for three years I have been coming here looking for figs on this fig tree, and I haven’t found any. Cut it down! Why should it go on using up the soil?’
8 But the gardener answered, ‘Leave it alone, sir, just one more year; I will dig round it and put in some manure.
9 Then if the tree bears figs next year, so much the better; if not, then you can have it cut down.’ ”
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2019-03-31
9 The Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have removed from you the disgrace of being slaves in Egypt.” That is why the place was named Gilgal, the name it still has.
10 While the Israelites were camping at Gilgal on the plain near Jericho, they observed Passover on the evening of the fourteenth day of the month.
11 The next day was the first time they ate food grown in Canaan: roasted grain and bread made without yeast.
12 The manna stopped falling then, and the Israelites no longer had any. From that time on they ate food grown in Canaan.
1 Happy are those whose sins are forgiven, whose wrongs are pardoned.
2 Happy is the one whom the Lord does not accuse of doing wrong and who is free from all deceit.
3 When I did not confess my sins, I was worn out from crying all day long.
4 Day and night you punished me, Lord; my strength was completely drained, as moisture is dried up by the summer heat.
5 Then I confessed my sins to you; I did not conceal my wrongdoings. I decided to confess them to you, and you forgave all my sins.
6 So all your loyal people should pray to you in times of need; when a great flood of trouble comes rushing in, it will not reach them.
7 You are my hiding place; you will save me from trouble. I sing aloud of your salvation, because you protect me.
8 The Lord says, “I will teach you the way you should go; I will instruct you and advise you.
9 Don’t be stupid like a horse or a mule, which must be controlled with a bit and bridle to make it submit.”
10 The wicked will have to suffer, but those who trust in the Lord are protected by his constant love.
11 You that are righteous, be glad and rejoice because of what the Lord has done. You that obey him, shout for joy!
16 No longer, then, do we judge anyone by human standards. Even if at one time we judged Christ according to human standards, we no longer do so.
17 Anyone who is joined to Christ is a new being; the old is gone, the new has come.
18 All this is done by God, who through Christ changed us from enemies into his friends and gave us the task of making others his friends also.
19 Our message is that God was making the whole human race his friends through Christ. God did not keep an account of their sins, and he has given us the message which tells how he makes them his friends.
20 Here we are, then, speaking for Christ, as though God himself were making his appeal through us. We plead on Christ’s behalf: let God change you from enemies into his friends!
21 Christ was without sin, but for our sake God made him share our sin in order that in union with him we might share the righteousness of God.
1 One day when many tax collectors and other outcasts came to listen to Jesus,
2 the Pharisees and the teachers of the Law started grumbling, “This man welcomes outcasts and even eats with them!”
3 So Jesus told them this parable:
11 Jesus went on to say, “There was once a man who had two sons.
12 The younger one said to him, ‘Father, give me my share of the property now.’ So the man divided his property between his two sons.
13 After a few days the younger son sold his part of the property and left home with the money. He went to a country far away, where he wasted his money in reckless living.
14 He spent everything he had. Then a severe famine spread over that country, and he was left without a thing.
15 So he went to work for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him out to his farm to take care of the pigs.
16 He wished he could fill himself with the bean pods the pigs ate, but no one gave him anything to eat.
17 At last he came to his senses and said, ‘All my father’s hired workers have more than they can eat, and here I am about to starve!
18 I will get up and go to my father and say, Father, I have sinned against God and against you.
19 I am no longer fit to be called your son; treat me as one of your hired workers.’
20 So he got up and started back to his father. “He was still a long way from home when his father saw him; his heart was filled with pity, and he ran, threw his arms round his son, and kissed him.
21 ‘Father,’ the son said, ‘I have sinned against God and against you. I am no longer fit to be called your son.’
22 But the father called his servants. ‘Hurry!’ he said. ‘Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and shoes on his feet.
23 Then go and get the prize calf and kill it, and let us celebrate with a feast!
24 For this son of mine was dead, but now he is alive; he was lost, but now he has been found.’ And so the feasting began.
25 “In the meantime the elder son was out in the field. On his way back, when he came close to the house, he heard the music and dancing.
26 So he called one of the servants and asked him, ‘What’s going on?’
27 ‘Your brother has come back home,’ the servant answered, ‘and your father has killed the prize calf, because he got him back safe and sound.’
28 “The elder brother was so angry that he would not go into the house; so his father came out and begged him to come in.
29 But he answered his father, ‘Look, all these years I have worked for you like a slave, and I have never disobeyed your orders. What have you given me? Not even a goat for me to have a feast with my friends!
30 But this son of yours wasted all your property on prostitutes, and when he comes back home, you kill the prize calf for him!’
31 ‘My son,’ the father answered, ‘you are always here with me, and everything I have is yours.
32 But we had to celebrate and be happy, because your brother was dead, but now he is alive; he was lost, but now he has been found.’ ”