You can read Luke 15:1-10 here This text from Luke suffers terribly from being known too well- a fate that next weeks text falls even more deeply into (the Prodigal Son). We read the parables of the lost sheep and the lost coin in complete isolation from the context of the larger reading, and then
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You can read Luke 16:1-13 here Have a read of this text, then you may want to read it again, then just for kicks try it again- it just doesn’t seem to make sense no matter which way you look at it. We have a guy that is ripping people off, that instead rips his
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You can read Luke 16:19-31 here A great deal of what I am writing about today comes from a podcast from Rob Bell. You can listen to these fabulous podcasts here. Unlike last week’s reading of the shrewd manager, this week’s reading of the story of the rich man and Lazarus is really well known.
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You can read Luke 17:5-10 here Every now and then it’s a good idea to step back and remember that we are reading a whole document, not a bunch of unconnected stories. The writers of Luke have method in their madness and there is beauty in the creation of the whole as well as the
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You can read Luke 17:11-19 here The story of the ten leaping lepers- I’m sure that’s the start of a Christmas Carol “Ten lepers leaping, nine something’s doing something else that rhymes.” Not to pour cold water on this musical vision, but the first thing to note about this story is that the poor diseased
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You can read Luke 18:1-9 here It is so important that I feel I must be forgiven for mentioning once again that the Gospels were not written for us, they were written for a specific audience at a specific period in time within a specific socio-economic and political framework. To deny this truth, or worse
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