Luke 15:1-3
Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him. And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, “This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them.” So he told them this parable:
Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him. And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, “This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them.” So he told them this parable:
I am appealing to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I have become during my imprisonment. Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful both to you and to me. I am sending him, that is, my own heart, back to you.
“I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourself, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.” (Luke 16:9)
Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with me.” But he said to him, “Friend, who set me to be a judge or arbitrator over you?”
He was praying in a certain place, and after he had finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us …
But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and distracted by many things; there is need of only one thing. …
Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he said, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
Whenever you enter a town and its people welcome you, eat what is set before you; cure the sick who are there, and …
Nathan Nettleton, a Baptist minister in Melbourne provides alternative translations of the lectionary texts that are designed to connect with the modern …
Now there on the hillside a large herd of swine was feeding; and the demons begged Jesus to let them enter these. So he …
Now the apostles and the believers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also accepted the word of God. So …
What my Father has given me is greater than all else, and no one can snatch it out of the Father’s hand. …