This week finds us working our way through the last bits of Deuteronomy as Israel is given instruction on setting up a new society in the Promised Land. Reading these chapters I have found myself wondering what excitement and a certain bit of anxiety that Israel must have felt at their new life in a new land. How would we today go about ordering a new society?
The psalms (53-58) strike me as having a Lenten flavor, as they deal with deceit, treachery, godless people -- people not getting along with one another. Next week we will move into much more joyous territory with the psalms.
If you are following The Center for Biblical Studies calendar, you will this week be at the mid-point of Luke, reading the parables, a literary form that Luke employs with particular skill. Pause to contemplate these parables (The Lost Sheep, Lost Coin, Prodigal Son)as we pass the mid-point of Lent.
And, if you are following an alternative New Testament reading schedule, you will be in the early chapters of I Corinthians, a book rife with the tension of how does a community work out its life together.
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Yours in Christ,
Joseph Pace
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