The Wedding Robe

October 15, 2023

Church of the Servant

20th Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 23 - Year A
Matthew 22:1-14

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Wedding Banquet Parable

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Turn then, and Live

October 1, 2023

Church of the Servant

18th Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 21 - Year A - Creation Liturgy
Ezekiel 18:1-4,25-32; Philippians 2:1-13; Matthew 21:23-32

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Advocacy Depends on Hope

September 24, 2023

Church of the Servant

17th Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 20 - Year A - Creation Liturgy
Jonah 3:10-4:11; Philippians 1:21-30; Matthew 20:1-16

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For God So Loved the World

Hope is a verb

Sources:

Catherine Meeks, The Night is Long but Light Comes in the Morning: Meditations for Racial Healing (Church Publishing Incorporated, 2022), Kindle edition, 122.

David Orr, Dangerous Years: Climate Change, the Long Emergency, and the Way Forward (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), 115.

Church of the Servant

Pentecost Sunday - Year A
Acts 2:1-21

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Sources:

  1. Luke Timothy Johnson, Sacra Pagina: The Acts of the Apostles, Daniel J. Harrington, Editor, The Liturgical Press, (Collegeville, MN: 1992), pp. 45-47.
  2. My Jewish Learning, https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/shavuot-101/