Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary: Additional Essays (Biblia.com)

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Feasting on the Word: Additional Essays include essays on the lections that are not covered in the Feasting on the Word print volumes. Essays included are from the Day of Pentecost through Proper 28, for Years A–C. The Revised Common Lectionary offers two tracks of Old Testament texts for the Season after Pentecost or Ordinary Time: a semicontinuous track, which moves through stories and...

upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations” (NRSV). In Isaiah 49:1–6, the Servant himself announces his mission, to be “ ‘a light to the nations, that [the LORD’s] salvation may reach to the end of the earth.’ ” In Isaiah 50:4–9, the Servant recognizes the torment that awaits him, pledges his faithfulness to God, and asserts that God will vindicate him. There are still a number of troubling elements here, theologically, but involuntary suffering is not one of them. Taken as a whole, the

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