“Praying Like the Powerless” (C47: Proper 24)
Jeremiah 31:27-34 and Psalm 119:97-104; Genesis 32:22-31 and Psalm 121; 2 Timothy 3:14-4:5; Luke 18:1-8 García uses the story of the “persistent widow” in Luke 18 to talk about “refusing to quit when the world...
C47: The Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2022)
In today’s sermon, Debie Thomas, Minister of Lifelong Formation at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Palo Alto, California and blogger at Journey with Jesus, explores the parable of the “persistent widow” from Luke 18:1-8. This...
C47: The Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2019)
Rev. Dr. Judy Kincaid, pastor of Little Elk Creek Lutheran Church and New Hope Lutheran Church in Menomonie, Wisconsin, once asked her children what they wanted to be when they grow up. Her ten-year-old son...
C47: The Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2016)
Dr. Valerie Carter Smith, Executive Director of the Woman’s Missionary Union of Virginia, is herself a “persistent widow.” While her minister husband was alive, he did most of the talking, but now it is Valerie...