Lectionary Reading – Year A Week 12
The Old Testament readings this week in Exodus focus on the confrontation between the Lord and Pharaoh over the people of Israel, resulting in God’s plagues of judgment upon Egypt and the Exodus of God’s people from bondage. The New Testament readings begin a two-week sequence through the letter to the Hebrews.
Keep readingLectionary Reading – Year A Week 11
This week begins a new set of Old Testament readings, turning to the book of Exodus. If Genesis is an extended prologue to the Great Deliverance of the Old Testament, then Exodus is the main event.
Keep readingLectionary Reading – Year A Week 10
This week’s Old and New Testament readings in Genesis and Revelation respectively to a conclusion.
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Joseph, the Bridge Between the Abrahamic and Mosaic Covenants (Gen. 37-50)
For the delivered Israelites, the Joseph narrative explains why the nation went down to Egypt in the first place and the covenantal basis for God’s delivering them. It does not evidence direct revelatory engagement between God and His people, but both Joseph and his brothers come see God’s providential working in the events that unfold.
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Covenantide 