Tag: Jacob
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It’s a struggle—and a blessing
The Tenth Sunday after Pentecost—Proper 13, Year A, Track 1—August 2, 2026 Genesis 32:22-31Psalm 17:1-7,16Romans 9:1-5Matthew 14:13-21 The story of Jacob wrestling with the angel is one of my favorites. It’s such a strange story. On the surface, it’s an etiology explaining how the patriarch Jacob came to also be…
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Oh, there’s a lot of stuff in that treasury.
The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 12, Year A, Track 1—July 26, 2026 Genesis 29:15-28Psalm 105:1-11, 45bor Psalm 128Romans 8:26-39Matthew 13:31-33,44-52 Traditional marriage, eh? <sigh> Today’s reading from Genesis is one I remember learning about as a child. I don’t remember much of how Sunday School teachers or others fielded any…
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Wrestling with angels
This past Sunday (October 20), many of us who use the Revised Common Lectionary heard the wonderful story of Jacob wrestling with the “angel”: The same night he got up and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. He…
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