Irreverently Reverend

  Second Sunday in Lent 27  Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?”  28  And they answered him, “John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.”  29  He asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered him, “You are the Messiah.”  30  And he sternly ordered them not to tell anyone about him. 31  Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.  32  He said all this quite openly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.  33  But turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things.” 34  He called the crowd with his disciples, and said to them, “If any want to become my followers, let them d

  First Sunday in Lent 8  God said to Noah and to his sons with him,  9  “I am now setting up my covenant with you, with your descendants,  10  and with every living being with you—with the birds, with the large animals, and with all the animals of the earth, leaving the ark with you.  11  I will set up my covenant with you so that never again will all life be cut off by floodwaters. There will never again be a flood to destroy the earth.” 12  God said, “This is the symbol of the covenant that I am drawing up between me and you and every living thing with you, on behalf of every future generation.  13  I have placed my bow in the clouds; it will be the symbol of the covenant between me and the earth.  14  When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow appears in the clouds,  15  I will remember the covenant between me and you and every living being among all the creatures. Floodwaters will never again destroy all creatures.  16  The bow will be in the clouds, and upon seeing it I wil

  Transfiguration Sunday After we had reached safety, we then learned that the island was called Malta.  2  The natives showed us unusual kindness. Since it had begun to rain and was cold, they kindled a fire and welcomed all of us around it.  3  Paul had gathered a bundle of brushwood and was putting it on the fire, when a viper, driven out by the heat, fastened itself on his hand.  4  When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “This man must be a murderer; though he has escaped from the sea, justice has not allowed him to live.”  5  He, however, shook off the creature into the fire and suffered no harm.  6  They were expecting him to swell up or drop dead, but after they had waited a long time and saw that nothing unusual had happened to him, they changed their minds and began to say that he was a god. 7  Now in the neighborhood of that place were lands belonging to the leading man of the island, named Publius, who received us and entertained