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Sermon: What is Jesus saying? (We don’t know!)
No one has any idea what today’s parable, the parable of the unjust steward, is about. The Church Fathers ignored it; renowned contemporary commentators have declared it to be incomprehensible; and people have suggested that the author of the Gospel according to Luke himself had no idea of its meaning, and so just added a series of morals to the end of the story in the hope that they would make sense of it. Continue reading
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Tagged 1 Timothy 2:1-7, debts, Dishonest Manager, forgiveness, Luke 16:1-13, money, parables, Year of Luke
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Sermon: A complete puzzle of a parable
I have been chewing on this parable, as Jesus’ first hearers would have chewed it over on their way home that evening, wondering what the Lord meant by this story. Continue reading
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Tagged Dishonest Manager, Luke 16:1-13, money, parables, wealth, Wesley Uniting Church, Year of Luke
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