Lectionary Lab PREMIUM Edition for the Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A

October 1, 2023

Thinking the Texts by John Fairless

The Exodus journey of the Israelites is both humorously and painfully so much like our own attempts at being faithful to God’s way. We get another installment today of what I sometimes call the “C&C” motif: the people face a CHALLENGE and their first response is to COMPLAIN. Not that we have the same difficulty in our …