Divergence on the Lectionary – First Sunday of Advent, Year B
First Reading Isaiah 64:1–9 Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence— as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil— to make your name known to your adversaries, and that the nations might tremble at your presence! When you did awesome […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Christ the King, Year A
First Reading Ezekiel 34:11–16, 20-24 (Omitted verses in italics) “For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I, I myself will search for my sheep and will seek them out. As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his sheep that have been scattered, so will I seek out my sheep, and I […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 28, Year A (track one)
First Reading Judges 4:1–7 And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD after Ehud died. And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim. Then the people of […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 27, Year A (track one)
First Reading Joshua 24:1–3a, 14-25 Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem and summoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel. And they presented themselves before God. And Joshua said to all the people, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘Long ago, your fathers lived beyond the […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – All Saints, Year A
First Reading Revelation 7:9–17 After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 25, Year A (track one)
First Reading Deuteronomy 34:1-12 Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho. And the LORD showed him all the land, Gilead as far as Dan, all Naphtali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 24, Year A (track one)
A Study of the Scriptures appointed for the Lectionary, Proper 24, Year A.
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 23, Year A (track one)
First Reading Exodus 32:1–14 When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron and said to him, “Up, make us gods who shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 22, Year A (track one)
First Reading Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12–20 (omitted verses included in italics) And God spoke all these words, saying, “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 21, Year A (track one)
First Reading Exodus 17:1–7 All the congregation of the people of Israel moved on from the wilderness of Sin by stages, according to the commandment of the LORD, and camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.” […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 20, Year A (track one)
First Reading Exodus 16:2–15 And the whole congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness, and the people of Israel said to them, “Would that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 19, Year A (track one)
First Reading Exodus 14:19–31 Then the angel of God who was going before the host of Israel moved and went behind them, and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them, coming between the host of Egypt and the host of Israel. And there was the cloud and the darkness. And […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 18, Year A (track one)
First Reading Exodus 12:1–14 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, “This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you. Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 17, Year A (track one)
First Reading Exodus 3:1–15 Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. And the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 16, Year A (track one)
First Reading Exodus 1:8–2:10 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. And he said to his people, “Behold, the people of Israel are too many and too mighty for us. Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and, if war breaks out, they join our enemies […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 13, Year A (track one)
First Reading Genesis 32:22–31 (vs. 32 added in italics just because it completes the paragraph.) The same night he (Jacob) arose and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. He took them and sent them across the stream, and everything else that he […]
