Lectionary Lab PREMIUM Edition for the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B
September 15, 2024
Thinking the Text by John Fairless
A great key — and word to the wise for us as preachers, as well as our congregants — in Isaiah 50:4 is the idea of balancing speaking with listening. “The Lord GOD has given me a trained tongue, that I may know how to sustain the weary with a word. Morning by morning he wakens, wakens my ear to listen as those who are t…