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You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall.
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Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost

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Gospel Reading

Luke 21:5-19 Commentary

by Emerson Powery

Apocalyptic language challenges the status quo.

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1st Reading

Malachi 4:1-2a Commentary

by Jin H. Han

The Hebrew Bible regards these verses as the continuation of Malachi 3, so that the audience may learn all about what happens on the great day of the Lord to “the righteous and the wicked” and ...

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Alt. 1st Reading

Isaiah 65:17-25 Commentary

by Carolyn J. Sharp

Isaiah invites us into a theological vision of what life can be for God's faithful people.1

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Psalm

Psalm 98 Commentary

by Walter C. Bouzard

Psalm 98 is said to belong to a small collection of so-called “enthronement psalms” (Psalms 47; 93; 95-99).

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2nd Reading

2 Thessalonians 3:6-13 Commentary

by Edward Pillar

There is a very practical exhortation in the passage today—the call to work and not to be idle, or a busybody.

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This Far by Faith

by Dirk G. Lange

November 17, 2019

Apocalyptic themes fascinate, confuse, and rebuff us.

Almost everyone who comes to worship this week will have encountered some form of End Times theology if only in the many apocalyptic ...

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Sermon Brainwave Podcast

Sermon Brainwave #691 - Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost (Ord. 33)

November 17, 2019

Discussion on texts for Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost (Nov. 17, 2019). (Gospel) Luke 21:5-19; (First Reading) Malachi 4:1-2a; (Semi-continuous 1st Reading) Isaiah 65:17-25; Psalm 98; (Second Reading) 2 Thessalonians 3:6-13. Recorded at Luther Seminary, Saint Paul, Minn., for Working Preacher.

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