Tag: exegesis
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Reflecting on Isaiah 52 7-12
We are meditating on Isaiah 52:7-12 this week – the lovely announcement of salvation to exiled Israel. One of the first questions we probably want to consider is simply: how does this text affect us? What speaks to us, what thoughts and feelings do we have when we read it, how does it “affect” us?…
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Studying Isaiah 52 7-12
For the next five weeks, we’ll be looking at prophetic texts that focus our attention on what it means for God to be the ruler or king of Israel, and of the nations. Starting with Isaiah 52:7-12, an exultant poem of rejoicing over Israel’s impending redemption. [Some questions on the text are here.] Here are…
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Reflecting on Acts 9 9-17
So … this could be a text about communication, and authority, and agency, …
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Studying Acts 9 9-17
This week, we’re studying Acts 9:9-17, the “second act,” if you will, of the story of Saul / Paul’s dramatic encounter with Jesus on the Damascus road. This second act is the part where Ananias goes to the “street called Straight,” lays on hands, and Saul regains his sight. At first we might think this…
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Reflecting on Acts 8 29-40
We are studying Acts 8:29-40 this week; it’s the story of the baptism of “the Ethiopian eunuch” by Philip the Evangelist on the road from Jerusalem to Gaza. Some notes on the text are here, and here. This story will be relatively familiar to many, so we might want – as we often do –…
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Studying Acts 8 29-40
We are studying Acts 8:29-40 this week, a text we often refer to as “the story of the Ethiopian eunuch.” We looked at this same text several years ago, those notes are still here, and I still like them. For that matter, I think I was a lot more attuned to the resonances with other…
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“Still Unknown”
There are some consequences of accepting the idea that God is the One “in whom we live and move and have our being …”
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Studying Acts 3 1-11
We’re studying Acts 3:1-11 this week – the story of Peter, in the company of his friend John, healing a lame beggar at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple in Jerusalem. [That is, people in general who use the Uniform Series lessons are. But our class meets on Wednesday evenings – note some questions on…
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Studying Acts 2 1-42
Please do not make me cry by saying things like “now” “we” “have the Holy Spirit.” Acts 2 is not the first chapter in the Bible.
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Reflecting on Acts 1 1-11
Does it seem to anyone else that the ascension is fairly neglected in contemporary Christian thought? Why is that?
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Studying John 21 15-19
We’re looking once more at Jesus’ cryptic conversation with Peter on the beach
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Reflecting on John 21 1-14
How do we relate ourselves to this story about Jesus meeting some of his friends on the beach … ?
Matters of Interpretation 