TEXTS FROM ACTS AND PSALMS

If there is logic to the selection or combination of these texts, it is not readily discernible, even by stretching one's imagination. The sermon-speech by Paul in Acts works out a kind of "crisis-theology," which insists that necessary changes are currently demanded by the work of God in Jesus Christ. The psalm is a profound expression of piety, filled with vivid imagery and recalling the goodness of God both to Israel and to the psalmist.

Acts 17:22-31 - "The Changing of the Times"
Setting.  The lesson is the well-known speech by Paul on the Areopagus, or "Mars Hill." Having come from Asia Minor to Europe (the Roman province Macedonia), Paul and his colleagues, Timothy and Barnabas, moved through Philippi, Thessalonica, and Beroea before arriving in Athens. P…