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Sermon - Trinity IX, 2026 - Luke 16:1-13

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The Parable of the Unjust Steward , Marinus van Reymerswaele, 1540 Christian Wisdom Seeks Eternal Dwellings Wisdom is forward thinking and focused on the goal Christian wisdom employs every treasure, heavenly and worldly, for the sake of reaching the goal If there is a hardest parable, it might be this one; throws people off every time. The parable presents a rich man with a steward who was found wasting the rich man’s possessions. The job of a steward is to be faithful with someone else’s possessions, and this guy wasn’t cutting it. So obviously, he got fired. What’s crazy is the rich man lets the steward hand in the books, and he doesn’t hunt them down and take them from him immediately. The steward does exactly what you don’t want the steward to do, which is why normally the books get taken from the steward: the steward cooks the books. He meets some of the rich man’s debtors, probably tenant farmers, and in order to ingratiate himself with the debtors he adjusts how much they owe, ...
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Sermon - Feast of St. John, Apostle 2020 - John 21:20-25

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  Merry Christmas! Today is the feast of St. John, the apostle and evangelist. Of all the apostles, John is likely the one we most wish to be like. Of course we like Peter as well, but John is referred to as “ the disciple whom Jesus loved. ” John was the apostle at the foot of the cross and to him was given the charge to care for the mother of our dying Lord. At every meal, John is there at Jesus’ side, sitting next to the Lord. It’s good to desire to be like St. John, we want to be the beloved disciple. We want that special relationship with Christ. We want to be beside our Lord and Savior. Those are good desires, therefore we should imitate St. John, by humbly being at our Lord’s side constantly, learning from Him. So what was St. John like? How do we imitate him so as to be beloved by Jesus? Generally the way John is pictured is as a young soft effeminate man. For example, Leonardo Da Vinci's The Last Supper painting depicts John submissively looking down with hands folded, wh...
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