LUKE 12:16-21 The Lord said this parable: "The land of a rich man brought forth plentifully; and he thought to himself, 'What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?' And he said, 'I will do this: I will pull down my barns, and build larger ones; and there I will store …
8th Sunday of Luke, The Good Samaritan
LUKE 10:25-37 At that time, a lawyer stood up to put Jesus to the test, saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" He said to him, "What is written in the law? How do you read?" And he answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with …
Lazarus and the Rich Man
LUKE 16:19-31 The Lord said, "There was a rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate lay a poor man named Lazaros, full of sores, who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man's table; moreover the dogs came and …
7th Sunday of Luke: Jairus’ daughter
Jonah was a prophet living in Israel around 700 AD. God told him to go to Nineveh and preach repentance to the people. Nineveh was the capitol of an empire and that empire was mistreating the Israelites. Nineveh was the center of an evil empire, from Jonah’s perspective. It was also a place with immense …
Luke 8: Parable of the Sower
The bible tells us that Judas was a thief before he became a disciple of Jesus. Judas was a thief. The bible does not tell us what kind of a thief he was, but we know that there were bandits in those days who were ideological freedom-fighters, guerilla warriors who were trying to undermine the …
Godly Sorrow
Marina was the child of wealthy Christian parents. Her mother died when Marina was very young, so Marina was raised as a devout Christian by her father Eugenius. As Marina approached marriageable age, her father intended to find his child a husband and then retire to a Monastery. When Marina learned of his plan, she …
Sermon 29th of September 2019
There was once a nun who pretended to be insane. She pretended also to be possessed by a demon. The other sisters in the monastery would not eat with her. She would wander around the kitchen doing all the dirty work that no one else wanted to do. She wore rags on her head even …