29th Sunday OT All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for refutation for correction and for training in righteousness advises the author of 2 Timothy setting a challenging agenda for all of us involved with God s word The first reading offers a mysterious and troubling scenar

Luke s gospel is often called the gospel of prayer for three reasons First Luke frequently portrays Jesus at prayer second he records the prayer Jesus taught his disciples i e the Our Father and third he devotes more space than the other evangelists to Jesus teaching about prayer an

The second reading for the upcoming Sunday is again from 2 Timothy Here are three verses from the reading Beloved Remember Jesus Christ raised from the dead a descendant of David such is my gospel for which I am suffering even to the point of chains like a criminal But the word of God is

The story of the ten lepers Luke 17 11-19 appears often in instructional material for children I certainly remember learning from this story the lesson of gratitude The moral of this story was that no matter how ungratefully others might respond to acts of kindness I should always express thank

Just as real estate agents insist on the importance of location location location so exegetes pay close attention to the context in which biblical passages are set The gospel reading for Sunday 28th OT --Luke s account of Jesus healing ten lepers one of whom returns to give thanks 17 11-1

27th Sunday Today s Gospel highlights what a different world Jesus and the earliest Christians lived in by comparison with us today Jesus and Luke s community unquestionably believed in slavery In all the Gospels Jesus regularly draws on the image of a slave to make points about duty respect