"Jesus doesn't promise us an easy
life. Instead, he tells us the
truth. And he promises us that the
truth will set us free. I wonder how
the words of today's passage have
been true and freeing for us?"
Luke 21:5-19
- Reading the Text:
- NRSV (with link to Anglicized NRSV) at Oremus Bible Browser.
- Greek Interlinear Bible, ScrTR, ScrTR t, Strong, Parsing, CGTS, CGES id, AV.
- The Bible Gateway: NIV, NASB, CEV, The Message, KJV, etc.
- The Blue Letter Bible. KJV, alternate versions, Greek text with concordance, commentaries.
- The World Wide Study Bible includes commentary, exposition & sermons.
- Historical References, Commentary and
Comparative Texts:
- The Five Gospels Parallels, John W. Marshall, University of Toronto.
- "Temple and Jesus," The Jesus Database, an online annotated inventory of the traditions concerning the life and teachings of Jesus. Dr. Gregory C. Jenks, FaithFutures Foundation.
- Comparative texts about New Covenant Eschatology and Apocalyptic Speculation from Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, Targum, proto-Kabbala, Mishnah, Babylonian Talmud, and Midrash. At Rutgers University, Mahlon H. Smith's Into His Own: Perspective on the World of Jesus.
- IV.33 (The Marcionite Interpretation of God and Mammon), IV.39 (Concerning Those Who Come in the Name of Christ), Against Marcion, Tertullian (c. 210)
- V.1 (Introduction), Against Marcion, Tertullian (c. 212)
- Epistle LXXVI (Cyprian to Nemesianus) -- Cyprian of Carthage (c. 255)
- Deposition of Arius, Athanasius of Alexandria, c. 321-322.
- From the Geneva Notes.
- "This will be the result of your troubles and afflictions: they will be witnesses both before God and man of the treacherous and cruel dealing of your enemies, as well as of your steadfastness: A noble saying, that the afflictions of the godly and holy men pertain to the witness of the truth."
- From
Matthew
Henry's Commentary (c. 1700).
- "Though spiritual judgements are the most common in gospel times, yet God makes use of temporal judgments also."
- From
Wesley's
Notes.
John Wesley
(1703-1791).
- "Be calm and serene, masters of yourselves, and superior to all irrational and disquieting passions. By keeping the government of your spirits, you will both avoid much misery, and guard the better against all dangers."
- From the Commentary on the Whole Bible (Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871).
- From The
People's New Testament, B.W. Johnson, 1891.
- "You shall be in the Father's hand, saved, even if put to death, gaining eternally by suffering."
- Contemporary Commentary, Studies, and Exegesis:
-
Commentary,
Luke 21:5-19, David Tiede, Pentecost +25, Preaching
This Week, WorkingPreacher.org, 2010.
- "Jesus never promised it would be easy to follow him."
- Luke 21:5-19, Comments (commentary) and Clippings (technical notes for in-depth study), Pentecost 24C, Chris Haslam, Anglican Diocese of Montreal.
-
"First
Thoughts on Year C Gospel Passages in the Lectionary,"
Pentecost 25,
William Loader, Murdoch University, Uniting Church in Australia.
- "Trust in God has profoundly personal implications. It also has important political, social and religious ramifications."
-
Exegetical Notes
by Brian Stoffregen at CrossMarks Christian Resources.
- "How does one preach apocalyptic literature to people who are not suffering? Do we have to convince them that they are suffering for this literature to make sense?"
- The Destruction of the Temple Foretold, audio telling, story in episodes, graphic, audio and written commentaries. Go Tell Communications, Biblical Storytelling for the Global Village, 2010.
-
Lectionary Blogging, John Petty, Progressive Involvement,
2010.
- "The text has nothing to do with predictions of the future, and any interpretation which treats it so is fatally flawed from the start. Luke was not written primarily for 21st-century Christians anxious about the future. It was written for a beleaguered and persecuted minority under the thumb of Rome."
-
Holy Textures, Understanding the Bible in its own time and in ours,
Luke 21:5-19, David Ewart, 2010.
-
-
Things
to Admire, Russell Rathbun, The Hardest Question, 2010.
- "What does the widow?s gift have to do with the sacrifice of Jesus?"
-
Exegesis, Charles Aaron, Letionary Homiletics sample, 2010.
- "The gospel writers intend these passages to inspire the church toward endurance, with the promise of healthy souls."
-
- "Jesus calls us to ?remember the future??the communion of holy love we have been called to share with the whole company of saints. It is his words that strengthen us to be patient, hopeful and fruitful, orienting our vision towards God?s kingdom as the fulfillment of not only the church but of the whole creation."
- Laterally Luke, by Brian McGowan, Anglican priest in Western Australia.
-
"One
Plot at a Time," Roberta C. Bondi, The Christian Century,
2004.
- "It is tempting to think that nothing really is done for anybody by seemingly small, everyday things when the problems are so systemic. As my teachers remind me, however, the truth is just the opposite: without the little things, there are no big changes."
-
"A Time to Bear Witness,"
The Politics of God: The Way to the Cross, Eugene C. Kreider,
- "The religious leadership of the people of God bring upon themselves the destruction they are trying to avert..."
-
Concise Exegesis, Dick Donovan, Lectionary.org.
- "Christians have witnessed powerfully to their faith in the midst of persecution on countless occasions. Even if not persecuted, we bear witness to Christ anytime we bear adversity with grace."
-
"An
Opportunity for Your Testimony,"
Jerry Goebel, One
Family Outreach. "Focus on scripture from a justice perspective." Exegesis, study, and teen study
and activities.
- "How do we tell when bureaucracy, ritual, and buildings become more important than ministry?"
-
- "A healthy group will not use threat or fear. If it teaches a loving God, there will be no place for fear. An overemphasis on money also rings a warning bell."
-
- "When have you been faced with trials - and known that the only thing you could do was to endure them?"
-
"Appearance over
Content?" Larry Broding's Word-Sunday.Com: A Catholic
Resource for This Sunday's Gospel. Adult Study, Children's Story, Family
Activity, Support Materials.
- "How important are appearances to other? How important are appearances to you?"
-
"The
Things that Make for Peace," William
Willimon, The Christian Century, 1987. At Religion Online.
- "There can be no better work for us than -- in our own way, in our own place -- to testify to the fact that God rules the world; nations do not."
- "Troubles and Persecution," Rev. Bryan Findlayson, Lectionary Bible Studies and Sermons, Pumpkin Cottage Ministry Resources. Includes detailed textual notes.
-
"Gaining
One's Soul," F. Dean Leuking. Commentary from The Christian
Century, November, 1998. At Religion Online.
- "It is not stoic determination that gets us "gain of soul," but faithful reliance on his promise of grace sufficient in weakness, a grace that works in everything for the gain of the soul."
- "Jerusalem in the Last Days," a study from the Biblical Studies Foundation.
-
"Reading the
Times," Expository Essay, Dr.
William R. Long.
- "We can't fully separate the interpretive from the apocalyptic message of the passage."
-
Commentary,
Luke 21:5-19, David Tiede, Pentecost +25, Preaching
This Week, WorkingPreacher.org, 2010.
- Articles & Background:
- "Olivet Discourse," wikipedia.
- Jerusalem Temple Warning Inscription at K.C. Hanson and Douglas Oakman's excellent site Palestine in the Time of Jesus: Social Structures and Social Conflicts.
- The Herodian Temple (photo of the temple model at the Holyland Hotel, taken by K.C. Hanson), at K.C. Hanson and Douglas Oakman's excellent site Palestine in the Time of Jesus: Social Structures and Social Conflicts.
- Recommended articles
from ATLAS, an online collection of religion and theology journals, are
linked below.
ATLAS Access options are available for academic institutions, alumni of
selected theological schools, and clergy/church offices.
Annotated list of "starting place" articles at ATLAS
for this week's texts (includes direct links).
- Bondi, Roberta, "One Plot at a Time,"
The Christian Century, 2004.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Brueggemann, Walter, "The Terrible
Ungluing," The Christian Century, 1992.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Duke, Paul D., "Ruined Temples," The Christian
Century, 1995.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Johnson, Stephen C., "The 'Future' of Preaching:
Apocalyptic Eschatology and Christian Proclamation," Restoration
Quarterly, 2007.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - King, Michael A., "Now and Then," The Christian
Century, 2007.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Kreider, Eugene C., "The Politics of God: The Way to
the Cross," Word & World, 1986.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Lueking, F. Dean, "Gaining One's Soul," The
Christian Century, 1998.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Walvoord, John F., "Christ's Olivet Discourse on the
Time of the End: Prophecies Fulfilled in the Present Age," Bibliotheca Sacra, 1971.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Willimon, William, "The Things That Make for Peace,"
The Christian Century, 1987.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
- Bondi, Roberta, "One Plot at a Time,"
The Christian Century, 2004.
- Reviews:
- Sermons:
- "A Choice of Temples," Rev. Charles Hoffacker, "Out of the Rubble," Dr. Philip W. McLarty, Lectionary.org.
- "All Will Be Thrown Down," the Very Rev. Samuel G. Candler, Day1, 2010.
- "Coming Soon," Jeremy Troxler, Luke 21:7-8, 25-38 Faith & Leadership, Duke Divinity, 2010.
-
Goettinger Predigten im Internet: Every Sunday Sermons based on the
RCL by a team of Lutheran theologians/ pastors:
- "Reading the Signs," 18 November 2007, Luke Bouman
- The Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost, 14 November 2004, Walter W. Harms
- "Futurologists and their Vision for the Future," Edward Markquart, Sermons from Seattle.
- "A View from the Future," John Jewell, 1998.
- "Sermon for Proper 33," L. Gregory Bloomquist, Saint Paul University, Ottawa.
- Father Andrew M. Greeley, "Priest, Author, Sociologist," Commentary and Homily
- With Children:
- "Children's Literature: A Resource for Ministry," November 14, Union Presbyterian Seminary, 2010. Connections: Henry & the Crazed Chicken Pirates by Carolyn Crimi.
- "Two Girls Prepare," children's story by Larry Broding, word-sunday.com.
- "When I Am Afraid," children's sermon, coloring page, word search. Charles Kirkpatrick, Sermons 4 Kids.
- Drama:
- "Greener Pastures," Eric Stapleton, dramatix.
- "The Fire and the Flood," Glenn Hascall, dramatix.
- "Persecution," Melissa Denny, dramatix.
- "The Persecutor," David Marriott," dramatix.
- "Sanctuary," Richard G. Huxley, dramatix.
- "Taking Notes," Joanne Miller, dramatix.
- "The Missions Drama," Matthew Pole, Christian Drama and Mime.
- Graphics & Bulletin Materials:
- Commercial Site: Rumors of War, Films/Visual Liturgy based on RCL texts.
- Clip Art, Luke 21:9, Luke 21:15, Fr. Richard Lonsdale, Resources for Catholic Educators.
- Clip Art Images: Luke 21:5-19, Luke 21:5-19 #2, Misioneros Del Sagrado Corazón en el Perú.
- Luke 21:12-19, Liturgical Drawing, Maria d.c. Zamora, Claretian Resources, Philippines. ("Download and use these for free.")
- Luke 21:5-19 at Cerezo Barredo's weekly gospel illustration. Liberation emphasis.
- Hymns and Music:
- Contemporary/Praise Song suggestions, Together to Celebrate, David MacGregor.
- Fine Arts Images Linked at The Text This Week's Art Index:
- Movies scenes with the following themes, listed at The Text This Week's Movie Concordance:
- Study Links and Resources for the Book of Luke
