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
Reformation Day
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by Meda Stamper
This week’s text follows immediately on last week’s and is another parable about prayer.
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Jeremiah 14:7-10, 19-22 Commentary
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Jeremiah 14 drives us into the darkness.
Joel 2:23-32 Commentary
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The Pharisee, the Tax Collector, and the Reformation
by David Lose
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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 ...
Brainwave 318 - Lectionary Texts for 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.