Revised Coffee Lectionary ~ Fall 2013
Revised Coffee Lectionary is a Bible Study group which studies the Bible with a variety of methods while drinking coffee and enjoying fellowship together.
We meet most Mondays to discuss the readings coming up in the Sunday Lectionary - RCL - Revised "Coffee Lectionary"
We meet at CVille Coffee (1301 Harris Street) in Charlottesville from 10:30am – 11:30am.
Blessings,
The Rev. Peter M. Carey
September 16, 2013
Jeremiah 8:18-9:1
Psalm 79:1-9
1 Timothy 2:1-7
Luke 16:1-13
September 23, 2013
Jeremiah 32:1-3a, 6-15
Psalm 91:1-6, 14-16
1 Timothy 6:6-19
Luke 16:19-31
September 30, 2013
Lamentations 1:1-6Lamentations 3:19-26 or Psalm 1372 Timothy 1:1-14Luke 17:5-10
October 7, 2013
Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7
Psalm 66:1-11
2 Timothy 2:8-15
Luke 17:11-19
October 14, 2013 (No Meeting)
October 21, 2013
Joel 2:23-32
Psalm 652 Timothy 4:6-8, 16-18
Luke 18:9-14
October 28, 2013 (No Meeting)
November 4, 2013
Haggai 1:15b-2:9
Psalm 145:1-5, 18-21 or Psalm 98
2 Thessalonians 2:1-5, 13-17
Luke 20:27-38
November 11, 2013
Isaiah 65:17-25
Canticle 92 Thessalonians 3:6-13
Luke 21:5-19
November 18, 2013
Jeremiah 23:1-6
Canticle 4 or 16
Colossians 1:11-20
Luke 23:33-43
November 25, 2013 (No Meeting)
December 2, 2013
Isaiah 11:1-10
Romans 15:4-13
Matthew 3:1-12
Psalm 72:1-7, 18-19
December 9, 2013
Isaiah 35:1-10
James 5:7-10
Matthew 11:2-11
Psalm 146:4-9
December 16, 2013
Isaiah 7:10-16
Romans 1:1-7
Matthew 1:18-25
Psalm 80:1-7, 16-18
16 September 2013
14 September 2013
Encounters with new experiences
“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
Hardness of heart
I have been reflecting on what is the meaning of "hardness of heart" in the Bible, most notably when Pharaoh had a hard heart and would not let the Israelites go to the Promised Land. Today, I ran across this moving quote and poem in Bishop Carol Gallagher's blog, "mamabishop":
Now when he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons. She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept. But when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it.
After these things he appeared in another form to two of them, as they were walking into the country. And they went back and told the rest, but they did not believe them.
Afterward he appeared to the eleven themselves as they were reclining at table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen. And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God. And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by accompanying signs. Mark 16:9-20
Hardness of Heart
The rain comforts the mourning
our hearts are on the ground
nothing left for us to do
but sit and rock and weep.
The woman's words are no comfort
just idle tale of an old crone
the wild wishes of a broken heart
insanity acting out the impossible.
We know better how the world is
the best are taken and we abandoned
God was teasing us and taunting now
we are left incapacitated and alone.
We are realists and practical ones
we labor with our bodies our handshake is good
the hopes and new world he inspired in us
was just a passing woman's dream.
Here he stands again no longer broken
our shame and shortsightedness before us
better than his promises he appears
and promises to love us despite ourselves.
We can now look up in place of shame
we are called again part of a family
needed for the life of the world
and for God's love active within us.
Hardness of Heart
Now when he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons. She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept. But when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it.
After these things he appeared in another form to two of them, as they were walking into the country. And they went back and told the rest, but they did not believe them.
Afterward he appeared to the eleven themselves as they were reclining at table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen. And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God. And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by accompanying signs. Mark 16:9-20
Hardness of Heart
The rain comforts the mourning
our hearts are on the ground
nothing left for us to do
but sit and rock and weep.
The woman's words are no comfort
just idle tale of an old crone
the wild wishes of a broken heart
insanity acting out the impossible.
We know better how the world is
the best are taken and we abandoned
God was teasing us and taunting now
we are left incapacitated and alone.
We are realists and practical ones
we labor with our bodies our handshake is good
the hopes and new world he inspired in us
was just a passing woman's dream.
Here he stands again no longer broken
our shame and shortsightedness before us
better than his promises he appears
and promises to love us despite ourselves.
We can now look up in place of shame
we are called again part of a family
needed for the life of the world
and for God's love active within us.
11 September 2013
Life is short
Life is short,
And we do not have much time
To gladden the hearts of those
Who travel the way with us.
So be swift to be kind,
And as we go,
May the blessing, the love,
the joy, and the peace
Of the Holy One
Who is in the midst of us
Be among you and remain with you
Always.
Amen
(adapted from the French Poet Henri Amiel)
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