Tag: righteousness
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Reflecting on Jeremiah 22 1-10
We are studying Jeremiah 22:1-10 for Sunday, May 24. After last week’s unrelieved doom, we get a ray of possible hope in this prophetic sequel from Jeremiah, which comes immediately after last week’s text in the book of Jeremiah. [Some notes on this text are here.] Here are some questions we might want to reflect…
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Studying Jeremiah 22 1-10
We are studying Jeremiah 22:1-10 for Sunday, May 24. After last week’s unrelieved doom, we get a ray of possible hope in this prophetic sequel from Jeremiah, which comes immediately after last week’s text in the book of Jeremiah. Here are a few notes on this text: BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT: This text is the next…
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Study Notes – Amos 5 18-24
We are studying Amos 5:18-24 for Sunday, March 1 – the first Sunday in Lent, so this pointed repudiation of ritual worship unaccompanied by substantive change in one’s manner of living, this pointed insistence that justice and righteousness is the real worship, is timely. [Some questions on the text are here.] Here are a few…
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Study Notes – Matthew 5 13-20
We are studying Matthew 5:13-20 for Sunday, July 7. This is the continuation of the Sermon on the Mount we began studying last week – and which we’ll be studying for the rest of the month, through the end of Matthew 5, and then skipping over to sections of chapter 7. In other words, we’ll…
Matters of Interpretation 