Nehemiah 8:1–3, 5–6, 8–10

The Ideal and the Real in Worship

Lectionary Date: January 23, 2022 [3rd Sunday after the Epiphany, Year C]

Ezra models the six-hour sermon?!

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Jake Lehman says:

January 21, 2022 at 7:48 pm

Very nice episode as always! Thanks for your work in helping us preacher types to see new angles and have a deeper understanding of the text! (you make me wish I would have paid more attention in Hebrew class!) Keep up the good work!

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First Reading is an audio podcast to help you preach with confidence from the Hebrew Bible. We equip you with relevant linguistic, historical, and literary background for each week’s Old Testament lesson (the “first reading”) as scheduled in the Revised Common Lectionary. With help from our guests—some of the best thinkers and teachers in modern biblical scholarship—each episode probes some of the central questions raised by the text, and offers a couple potential angles for preaching it.

We want to see a community of clergy and congregations who have formative access to both testaments of Scripture. Our hope is that this weekly resource can help encourage more preachers to craft sermons that open up the Old Testament to their congregations!