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JESUS MAFA. The Pharisee and the Publican, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, Tenn.

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Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost

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Gospel Reading

Luke 18:9-14 Commentary

by Meda Stamper

This week’s text follows immediately on last week’s and is another parable about prayer.

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1st Reading

Jeremiah 14:7-10, 19-22 Commentary

by Richard W. Nysse

Jeremiah 14 drives us into the darkness. 

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Alt. 1st Reading

Joel 2:23-32 Commentary

by Karl Jacobson

Joel 2 is, perhaps, most well known from its quotation in Acts 2:14 and following.

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Psalm

Psalm 84:1-7 Commentary

by Fred Gaiser

The psalms chosen for lectionary use are often abridged for a variety of reasons -- sometimes valid, sometimes not so much, many of us would say. 

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2nd Reading

2 Timothy 4:6-8, 16-18 Commentary

by Matt Skinner

Payback -- it’s one of the dominant themes in art and narrative.

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Dear Working Preacher

The Pharisee, the Tax Collector, and the Reformation

by David Lose

October 27, 2013

Dear Working Preacher,

 

I’ve long thought that the parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector made a much better Reformation Day text than the appointed passage ...

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Brainwave 318 - Lectionary Texts for October 27, 2013

October 27, 2013

Discussion on texts for the Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost: (Gospel) Luke 18:9-14; (1st Reading) Jeremiah 14:7-10, 19-22; (Semicontinuous 1st Reading) Joel 2:23-32; Psalm 84:1-7; (2nd Reading) 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 16-18. A separate podcast (Sermon Brainwave 319) is available for Reformation Day texts.

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