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Nov 27, 2007

Volume 124, Issue #24

Lectionary

Prodded to life: Isaiah 11:1-10; Romans 15:4-13; Matthew 3:1-12

Isaiah gives us a vision of what the new anointed one will be like, what gifts he will have and how he will be someone run by Elsewhere—not by the criteria of groupthink, of lobbying groups. His criteria will give voice to the meek who have no voice and don’t know how to use a voice. His words will become the criteria for everything, much to the dismay of the wicked.

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