Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost

And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.

(Colossians 1:17-18 ESV)

Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost Lectionary Readings

Jer. 31:27-34
Psalm 119:97-104 or Psalm 19 or UMH 750
2 Tim. 3:14-4:5
Luke 18:1-8