Luke 9:51-62 Every time this Gospel text rolls around, I find myself annoyed by it for what Jesus has to say today makes no sense to me at all.  I mean, truly, what is this business about the dead burying their own dead?  And then I remembered… It was the summer before I was to …

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Luke 7:11-17 I have to say I have no parallels for the story before us now.  Never in my life or ministry have I encountered such as this.  I have been part of hundreds of funerals by now and while there are some which have perhaps proceeded not quite as expected, all of them have …

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