Lent 2C (RCL) – A Preacher’s Ponderings

God’s risk

Second Sunday in Lent; 13 March 2022; Lent 2C (RCL); Genesis 15:1-12, 15-18; Psalm 27; Philippians 3:17 – 4:1; Luke 13:31-35.

What a mish-mash of readings this week. I suppose that happens when you read books in-course. The Luke reading especially puzzles me; I’m not really sure how it fits into Luke’s overall narrative strategy, although I suppose it pushes forward the progress toward Jerusalem. But Jesus has not yet been to Jerusalem; how can he have desired to have protected her children? Unless perhaps he is speaking as Wisdom.

Tell that fox

17 March 2019
Second Sunday in Lent
Lent 2C (RCL)
Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18
Psalm 27
Philippians3:17 – 41
Luke 13:31-35

The passage from Genesis records an unusual covenantal ritual – nothing of the kind is recorded elsewhere in scripture (except an allusion in Jeremiah 34:18-20). This is clearly not a sacrifice — some of the animals are female, and three years old, and they are not eaten or burned. The allusion in Jeremiah suggests that the point of the ritual was to call God to witness an agreement and render anyone who broke the agreement like the cut animals. Continue reading “Tell that fox”