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Sunday, November 8Christ Church Glendale

The Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost

Jesus tells a parable about ten bridesmaids waiting through a long night, and the sermon reads it against a week when people waited for an election result. It asks what we store up in the ordinary hours and what cannot be borrowed at midnight.

What was preached

• Matthew 25:1–13
• Joshua 24:14–15
• Psalms 78:1–8
• 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18

• Why does the bridegroom delay until midnight, and what does the wait show about the feast?
• What separates the wise bridesmaids from the foolish ones, if all ten fell asleep?
• Why does Joshua press the people after they answer that they will serve the Lord?

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