Luke What is good news to one person can be bad news to another. During WWII, while my father served in the Navy, his younger brother was in the Navy Air Force. When it was announced that the war was over and Japan had surrendered, my father celebrated with his shipmates and the whole fleet…
Luke 15: 11-31 We come in our series on the parables of Jesus to this Easter Sunday and the Parable of the Prodigal Son. The titles of the Parables are sometimes misleading. Last week’s parable, The Sower, is really a parable about soils. This week’s parable, The Prodigal Son, should really be renamed the parable…
Luke 18:9-14 When I was a pastor in Ohio in the United States, I lived next door to a man who came right out of the movie The Deerhunter – which was filmed locally. He was a Vietnam war veteran and worked in one of the local steel mills. He was a huntin’ and fishin’,…