Lectionary Lab PREMIUM Edition for the Third Sunday after Epiphany, Year C

January 23, 2022

Comments by John Fairless

Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10
I, yes, even I — the preacher — am guilty at times of taking the reading and the hearing of God’s word a bit too lightly. 

Nehemiah gives us the wonderful account — most likely inserted in the ongoing saga of the rest of the book from another source, but marvelous, nonetheless — of the people of Israel, w…