Matthew 18:21-35 And it is, of course, totally absurd. Indeed, I went down a rabbit hole this week, trying to figure out exactly how much ten thousand talents was, at least in relation to 100 denarii. It turns out there are a number of ways to make the comparison. For instance, it seems it would …
Tag: Pentecost 16A
“My Ninevah”
Jonah 3:10-4:11 Matthew 20:1-16 “And should I not be concerned about Ninevah, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also many animals?” (Jonah 4:11) As of now, I cannot think of a better last line of …
“The Will of the Father…”
Ezekiel 18:1-4, 25-32 Matthew 21:23-32 So much time has passed since then. Even so, I still offer this story with no small measure of pain. We stood around her casket on a rainy Christmas Eve forty years ago. It was just my mother and dad, my three sisters, my grandfather, and me. There was no visitation for receiving …