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Bruce L. Taylor. No Business as Usual
No Business as Usual
Table of Contents
Introduction
The Day of Pentecost
Trinity Sunday
Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time
Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time
All Saints’ Day
Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Christ the King
Thanksgiving
Appendix: “Praying Our Way to San Jose”
List of Sources Cited
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Sermons for the Lectionary, Year A, Pentecost through Christ the King
Bruce L. Taylor
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Amazed and astonished, they asked, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? And how is that we hear, each of us, in our own native language? Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs—in our own languages we hear them speaking about God’s deeds of power.” (Acts 2:7–11, NRSV; emphasis here and in subsequent scripture quotations has been added)
Luke, whom we believe was the author of Acts, was clearly impressed with the supernatural aspect of tongues as of fire and the disciples speaking suddenly in foreign languages, and that scene grabs our attention, too. But we shouldn’t let our curiosity about the spectacular features of the story obscure the substance of what was going on: the disciples, only just recently fearful and disavowing any relationship to Jesus, timid and uncertain following the death of their Master, were now testifying to God’s deeds of power, and people representing every nation on earth were listening and hearing. Peter, the very one who had denied even knowing Jesus on the night of his arrest, suddenly became bold and articulate, and the others soon followed his lead. And the rest of the book of Acts shows how the proclamation of God’s deeds of power in Jesus Christ spread from Jerusalem through Judea and Syria and all the way to Rome.
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