Here's a link to his website along with the cartoon featured this week.
http://johnsheppardcartoons.com/saints.html
The Parable of the Persistent Widow. Luke 18: 1-8.
The NIV Study Bible notes tell us the windows were particullarly helpless and vulnerable becuase they had no fmaily to uphold their cause. In this parable the widow had only justic and her own persistence in her favour. Jesus' message is that if an unworthy judge who feels no constraint of rght or wrong is compelled by persistence to deal justly with a helpless individual, how much more will God answer prayer! Further, God will not delay his support of the chosen oones when they are right because he is not like the unjust judge who had to be badgered until he was wearied and gave in. God loves faith that perserves in prayer and loyalty! Chirst makes a second application that looks forward to the time of his second coming. A period of spiritual decline and persecuton is assumed - a time that will require perseverance such as the widow demostrated.
cf. Parish Bulletin, Oct. 20, 2013
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