Follow the Leader

Gospel Reading – Luke 13:31-35
At that very hour some Pharisees came and said to him, “Get away
from here, for Herod wants to kill you.”
He said to them, “Go and tell that fox for me, ‘Listen, I am casting
out demons and performing cures today and tomorrow, and on the
third day I finish my work.
Yet today, tomorrow, and the next day I must be on my way,
because it is impossible for a prophet to be killed outside of
Jerusalem.’
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones
those who are sent to it! How often have I desired to gather your
children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and
you were not willing!
See, your house is left to you. And I tell you, you will not see me
until the time comes when you say, ‘Blessed is the one who comes in
the name of the Lord.’ ”
A Word of God that is still speaking
Thanks be to God.

Epistle Reading – Philippians 3:17-4:1
Brothers and sisters, join in imitating me, and observe those who
live according to the example you have in us. For many live as
enemies of the cross of Christ; I have often told you of them, and
now I tell you even with tears.
Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, and their glory is in
their shame; their minds are set on earthly things.

But our citizenship is in heaven, and it is from there that we are
expecting a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
He will transform the body of our humiliation that it may be
conformed to the body of his glory, by the power that also enables
him to make all things subject to himself.
Therefore, my brothers and sisters, whom I love and long for, my
joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

A Word of God that is still speaking
Thanks be to God.