Our Father...who gives good gifts
Paid Version: Seventh Sunday After Pentecost- Hosea 1:2-10; Colossians 2:6-15; Luke 11:1-13
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Hosea 1:2-10 1
Our Old Testament reading is the beginning of the book of the prophet Hosea. The first three chapters of Hosea tell of Hosea’s marriage to a woman named Gomer, who is unfaithful to him. Scholars are divided as to the ethical question of why God would command Hosea to marry a “woman of prostitution” (NRSV) or…