Luke 16:19-31, from Proper 21 (26)

I received a gift this week so valuable that I didn’t know what to do with it and ended up eating it.

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Luke 14:25-33, from Proper 18 (23)

A life lived apart from God may not be as miserable as evangelical Christianity’s marketing often suggests.

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Luke 13:10-17, from Proper 16 (21)

Jesus often talked completely over the heads of the people around him, and often, it seems, completely on purpose.

But at times he said things that hit people right between the eyes, or perhaps right in the heart. This week’s Gospel reading recounts one of those times.

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