Eighth Sunday after Pentecost
Readings – Hosea 11:1-11; Psalm 107:1-9,43; Colossians 3:1-11; Luke 12:13-21 In ancient Israel about 1900 B.C.E. geologists tell us that the area around Sodom and Gomorrah was destroyed by an earthquake followed by fire. The earthquake exposed some oil and gas deposits that ignited into a consuming fire. The people of the day, and those…