Seventh Sunday after Pentecost, 24 Jul 2022, LoLLC
Channel: Lord of Life Lutheran Church
Date: 2022-07-25

These texts focus on women and their households; in three, children (or their lack) characterize those homes, not unexpected in the world of the Hebrew Scriptures. However, in the Epistle, the members of Nympha’s household are the members of the church in her home, a church that surely she leads.

Cover art: Hannah's Prayer, by Durga Yael Bernhard, "As Hannah prays for her unborn child, her belly changes from barren winter to fertile spring to the fruition of summer"