Emphasis Preaching Journal
A word out of fashion
Commentary
Invitations, imperatives and warnings sound forth in the readings for this Sunday. With moving words that make us think of the gospel of John the unknown prophet of the exile stands in the marketplace to ask piercing questions and call for a change of ways. Paul in the process of taking on the Gnostic sophisticates among the Corinthian Christians reminds them that moral and ethical choices have real consequences for good or ill.