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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 - St. Timothy 2021 - 1 Timothy 6:11-16

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  Today in the life of the church we remember the pastor, bishop, confessor, and martyr, St. Timothy. Timothy was born in Lystra to parents of mixed ethnicities and religions. His father was a Greek gentile and his mother Eunice was a Jew converted to Christianity. God be praised for Eunice who taught the faith to her son in spite of her husband’s unbelief. While St. Paul was in Lystra, preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ, he met Timothy and took him under his tutelage to train him up to be a pastor in Christ’s church. Thus the letters bearing Timothy’s name were written by St. Paul to St. Timothy as instruction and encouragement to a young pastor. These letters largely focus on the responsibilities given to pastors, which is primarily to be engaged in the public reading of scripture and teaching. To this day, men preparing to be pastors still study the epistles to Timothy, and are thus primarily engaged in the public reading of scripture and teaching the faith. According to tradi...
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