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Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost

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Gospel Reading

Matthew 22:15-22 Commentary

by Lance Pape

Politically, just about the only thing Pharisees and Herodians have in common is that they don’t like Jesus.

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1st Reading

Isaiah 45:1-7 Commentary

by Patricia Tull

This passage stands in the center of the first half of Second Isaiah (Isaiah 40-55), which was composed in the middle of the sixth century B.C.E. to encourage Judeans scattered by the Babylonian destruction ...

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Alt. 1st Reading

Exodus 33:12-23 Commentary

by Eric Mathis

Exodus 33 shows Israel in a state of panic. Plain and simple, God’s people were in triage management following the fiasco with the golden calf (Exodus 32).

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Psalm

Psalm 96:1-9 [10-13] Commentary

by Nancy Koester

Psalm 96 is for royalty. It should start with timpani and end with a trumpet. (If you don’t have a drummer or trumpeter handy, read on.)

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2nd Reading

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10 Commentary

by Michael Joseph Brown

If anything, this letter is about relationship and imitation. Paul makes this clear from the beginning.

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Having Hope

by Karoline Lewis

October 19, 2014

Dear Working Preachers,

We know well the triad, “faith, hope, and love” that gloriously rounds out Paul’s chapter on Christian love in 1 Corinthians 13.

We may ...

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Sermon Brainwave Podcast

Sermon Brainwave #378 - Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Ordinary 29)

October 19, 2014

Discussion on texts for Ordinary 29 (Oct. 19, 2014): (Gospel) Matthew 22:15-22; (1st Reading) Isaiah 45:1-7; (Semicontinuous 1st Reading) Exodus 33:12-23; Psalm 96:1-9 [10-13]; (2nd Reading) 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10.

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