RevGals Friday Five Meme: Fave Verses edition
Songbird. over at RevGals, wonders what five Bible verses are our favorite:
My first response is - any verse I am preaching on. After spending days and hours pondering the readings for any given Sunday and working the text like I'm kneading breading, until it has shape and form and is pliable, I end up loving that text. In the process the text has likewise given shape and form to my life and faith. This is particularly true for those texts that I really struggle with, or those challenging occassions when preaching seems an impossible task and yet words come....
That said there are some favorite:
the woman (Mary) in John 12 who annointed Jesus' feet with nard and wiped them her hair
the woman at the well with Jesus in John 4
Matthew 22 - when the pharisee asks Jesus to list the one commandment that is the greatest:
the three strangers arriving at Abraham and Sarah's tent, and they are hosted like family in Genesis 18
My first response is - any verse I am preaching on. After spending days and hours pondering the readings for any given Sunday and working the text like I'm kneading breading, until it has shape and form and is pliable, I end up loving that text. In the process the text has likewise given shape and form to my life and faith. This is particularly true for those texts that I really struggle with, or those challenging occassions when preaching seems an impossible task and yet words come....
That said there are some favorite:
the woman (Mary) in John 12 who annointed Jesus' feet with nard and wiped them her hair
the woman at the well with Jesus in John 4
Matthew 22 - when the pharisee asks Jesus to list the one commandment that is the greatest:
"When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, 35and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. 36“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” 37He said to him, “’You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38This is the greatest and first commandment. 39And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”the story of Jacob wrestling with the angel in Genesis 32
the three strangers arriving at Abraham and Sarah's tent, and they are hosted like family in Genesis 18
Comments
Jacob wrestling...another favorite.
And for the record, my word verification is "cross"
thx for your thoughtful post ")
I have told more than one..um...fundamentalist type...that a woman was the first evangelist.
Heh heh! Thanks for playing!
When I wonder why I don't memorize verses well, I remember frequently that numbering verses came along when Calvin's followers had trouble following his sermons...