Lectionary Lab PREMIUM Edition for the Sixth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C

July 17, 2022

Comments by John Fairless

Amos 8:1-12
Amos is “hot” in today’s text!

Well, I suppose it’s actually God who is hot; Amos is, after all, just a prophet. He must deliver the message that is given to him by the Spirit of God. 

The message for today is bound up in a bushel of “summer fruit.” As some scholars note, the translation could be “ripe fruit” — the idea…