THE RICH MAN AND LAZARUS 7/6/20

Luke has a problem with rich people and uses a lot of the saying of Jesus that deal with the rich. In the Magnificent, Luke 1:53, Mary says, “He has filled the hungry with good things but has sent the rich away empty.” In Luke 4 Jesus says he has...Read more

POSSIBILITIES IN THE GOOD SAMARITAN PARABLE

6/30/20 Luke 10:25-37 Here is some background for the sermon this last Sunday. Almost nothing is certain but we can gleam some possibilities from the text and from what we know about the culture of the time. Remember the original question from the Rabbi to Jesus was, “What must I...Read more

WEDNESDAYS IN JUNE – 6/24/20

Bonhoeffer said, “We prefer our own thoughts to those of the Bible. We no longer read the Bible seriously. We read it no longer against ourselves but only for ourselves”. An example of this is the “Love Chapter”, 1 Corinthians 13. It is probably the most beautiful chapter in the...Read more

WEDNESDAY WANDERINGS – 6/17/20

We live in a world where life is cheap! Welcome to the “brave new world”! Fifty years ago if someone took another person’s life everyone would bring up the 6th Commandment, “Thou shall not kill” (Ratsach in Hebrew). Most people today know that it means murder instead of kill. It...Read more

SUNDAY – 6/14/20

Galatians 3:28, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” Gal 3:28 is a statement of fact rather than just a possibility. The ground at the cross is level! Christ Jesus accepts...Read more

CAIN – 6/2/20

Genesis 4:8-10, “And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I...Read more

WEDNESDAY – 5/27/20

I know that almost everyone speaking on the Covid-19 virus has an agenda and it is hard to get exact figures or even figures you can believe. But most agree that there has been close to 100,000 deaths in America attributed to the Covid-19 virus. That is more Americans than...Read more

WEDNESDAY LONGINGS

I don’t know about you but I long for somethings to get back to normal. Not all things but somethings. One definition of a Conservative is to conserve things as they are, and one definition of a Liberal is to change things to, hopefully, something better. When it comes right...Read more

WEDNESDAY WANDERINGS – 5/13/20

Today freedom mostly means freedom of choice! Ancient Hebrew has two different words for freedom: Chofesh and Cherut. Chofesh is more the modern American idea of freedom—freedom from restraints and freedom do, go and act as you please. One dictionary defines freedom as “the power to act, speak, or think...Read more
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