Lectionary Lab PREMIUM Edition for the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B
August 25, 2024
Thinking the Texts by John Fairless
In the Kings text with Solomon for today, I am most struck by the “universal” nature of Solomon’s prayer and, evidently, of God’s plan for the “dwelling place” of God, i.e., the Temple. “When foreigners come and pray toward this house, then hear in heaven your dwelling place and do whatever the foreigners ask of you, s…