A sermon for the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost

The Gospel text today is about the widow who was pounding on the door of the judge. What happened? It says in the first verse that this is about prayer: “He told them a parable, to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.” Does it mean we have to pound harder to make God hear us? In Romans 8:26 it says we are like children and the Holy Spirit translates our prayers. What this parable is really about is what God is like and how God works.

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