Luke 12:13-21 The perspective offered in this week’s Gospel lesson is one that’s always hard earned and too often, I’m afraid, comes to us late. I, at least, like the poor rich man in the story Jesus offers now, normally don’t hold it. I’m still holding on, saving up, thinking I have forever. At some …
Luke 10: 38-42 A long time ago I was in worship on a Sunday morning. I was a young teenager and sitting on my lap was three-year-old Elizabeth. I was her regular baby-sitter. Our dads worked together. We lived in the same neighborhood and worshipped at the same Lutheran church. Now this church was a mission start …
Luke 10:25-37 I stepped out the front door of the church the other day and looked up to see a woman clothed in a black burqa walking by. She was holding the hands of two little girls. The children wore head scarves and were sporting bright purple and pink flowered back packs. No doubt they …