Year C, Ordinary 24, 2019 – Lost and Found
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Hey everyone! We’ve lost a couple days this week due to various real work and real world events staking time in our lives. We are doing an abbreviated show this week as a result. We can’t even point you back to our show three years ago, because we skipped it – due to real work and real world events! September is a tough month. At any rate, the Old Testament complimentary selection is from Exodus when God’s patience with the Hebrews comesthisclose to breaking before Moses draws God back into cooler temperatures. In Luke, Jesus tells stories about lost things being found – and heaven rejoices.
Smarts of the Week [01:58]
We found a new website with some information about Gardner’s theory! We have some examples written by Kendra Cherry at VeryWellMind. Check it out! Today, we are concentrating on BODY and MATH smart for illustrations and special effects.
This Week’s Texts
Exodus 32:7-14 – [05:49]
I often wonder what it might have been like to be in Moses’ shoes in this story. There he was, on a dark and threatening mountain, receiving the law directly from God. WOW! I imagine every hair on his body was standing on end. I imagine him anchored fully in the experience. Then, suddenly, God is really angry and is telling him to go back down because HIS people were misbehaving! For BODY smart, David suggests experiencing God’s anger; God was giving them the means for life and prosperity, and they were down there worshipping a golden calf. Infuriating! For MATH smart, Moses had to step in and reason God back from the brink of destroying them. He does this by reminding God of God’s reputation with the Egyptians. This seems to be enough; plus, Moses refuses to let God disavow the covenant. Pretty smart.
- MATH smart – [07:34]
- BODY smart – [09:58]
Luke 15:1-10 – [14:08]
Jesus tells these two stories in today’s passage as a response to the Pharisees and scribes griping about his associations with tax collectors and sinners. The ultimate point of all three parables in this chapter (the third, about the two lost sons, we did some weeks back) is that God places great value on all of us, especially those who have strayed and become lost. The return of the lost is cause for rejoicing in heaven. For BODY smart, stick with the idea of experiencing the emotion of the story in your own body. We have a story about losing our son in a large crowd and how that has stayed with us 22 years later. Our relief at being reunited with him was palpable. For MATH smart, look up the value of silver and crunch some numbers to illustrate the woman’s efforts to find her coin.
- BODY smart – [15:04]
- MATH smart – [20:30]
- Four out of five dentists recommend Trident gum.
- Here is the price for a gram, an ounce, and a kilo of silver.
- A sestertius weighs about 28 grams.
- A shekel weighs 13.61 grams
- The Greek text uses the word drachma, which is a Greek coin.
- Here’s a listing that includes some drachmas (tetradrachms) at wildwind.com (about 1/3 down the page)
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