Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Year A

Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20 and Psalm 19 • Isaiah 5:1-7 and Psalm 80:7-15 • Philippians 3:4b-14 • Matthew 21:33-46

I am the LORD your God … you shall have no other gods before me … you shall not make for yourself an idol.

Exodus 20:2a, 3

You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the LORD your God …

Exodus 20:7a

The Ten Commandments

Church WoodcarvingPaszyn, Poland

Remember the sabbath day, and keep it holy.

Exodus 20:8

Marine Regimental Combat Team Worship Service, Camp Ripper Chapel, Al Asad, Iraq

Honor your father and your mother …

Exodus 20:12a

A New Child

Brick wall mural

Gdansk, Poland

You shall not murder.

Exodus 20:13

Enclave: Monument to Victims of Domestic Violence -- Ottawa, Canada

You shall not commit adultery.

Exodus 20:14

Patience -- Janet Echelman, Civic Space Park, Phoenix, AZ

You shall not steal.

Exodus 20:15

Children in a Democracy

Dorothea LangeNational ArchivesCollege Park, MD

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Exodus 20:16

Gossip After Church

Rudolf Schiestl, book illustration

You shall not covet your neighbor's house … or anything that belongs to your neighbor.

Exodus 20:17ac

Ten Commandments

Keith Haring

The heavens are telling the glory of God … their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.

Psalm 19:1a, 4a

Sky, or Heaven

Marsden HarleyNelson-Atkins

Museum of ArtKansas City, KS

For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the people of Judah are his pleasant planting; he expected justice, but saw bloodshed; righteousness, but heard a cry!

Isaiah 5:7

Jewish Star Patch Worn by Jews in Holland, 1940-1945 -- Corrie Ten Boom

Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine …

Psalm 80:7

Face of God -- Ethiopian 18th c. manuscript, Church of Narga Selassie, Lake Tana, Ethiopia

… not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but one that comes through faith in Christ …

Philippians 3:9b

"placing yourself in god's story, among the heroes of the faith on the arena rail..."Emerging Church Festival, Cheltenham, England

Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the scriptures: 'The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone …"

Matthew 21:42a

INRI

Mural from the Cornerstone Christian Music Festival, 2012

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