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Proper 15C / Ordinary 20C / Pentecost +13
August 18, 2013
Berger, Teresa, "Disturbing the Peace," The Christian Century, 2004
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"This gospel lesson calls us to witness to this good news and to the crisis that is God's consuming and compelling presence. Life cannot flourish without this crisis."
Durnbaugh, Donald F., "Go Forth in Faith: Qualities of Faith From Hebrews 11-12," Brethren Life and Thought, 1990.
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"The authors found that when this prior orientation toward worship of God took place, real ministry to the individual members occurred as well. By shifting away, in the first place, from themselves they rediscovered the biblical promise that those who lose themselves will indeed find themselves."
Long, Thomas G., "What Cloud? What Witnesses?: A Preacher's Exegesis of Hebrews 12:1-12," Word & World, 2008.
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"Hebrews' "cloud of witnesses" served to encourage dispirited Christians, worn down by the constant struggles of the Christian life. The letter offers them (and us) a robust theological vision, a Christology of hope."
Renwick, David A., "Between Text and Sermon: Hebrews 11:29-12:2,"Interpretation, 2003. (See also, "Hebrews," issue focus of Interpretation, 2003.)
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"The task of the writer, then, is to re-define for the audience their community of belonging in a way that connects their lives individually and as a community to others whose lives will truly inspire. The new, extended community must therefore include those whose faithfulness has actually ended in success (those who have played the game of faithfulness to God to the end and have "won"). The new community must also include those whose experience of the faithful life is comparable to the readers' own (those who have faced similar or harder difficulties). The readers must be convinced that their experience is by no means unique."
Wilhelm, Dawn Ottoni, "Of Grapes and other Wild Things, Isaiah 5:1-10,"Brethren Life and Thought, 2007.
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"One grape is not enough for a bottle of wine, a jug of Welch's, or flavoring the stew. It takes many grapes pressed together, willing to live together, to share the vineyard, eager to be not only grapes but wine—the wine God intends us to be."
Lemke, Werner E., "The Near and the Distant God: A Study of Jer 23:23-24 in Its Biblical Theological Context," Journal of Biblical Literature, 1981.
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