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| Summary: If only people of faith could show the same enthusiasm for giving that greedy people show for accumulating wealth!
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| Summary: God owns us, not in the way slaveowners owned slaves, but through sacrificial love. When we feel angry at — or abandoned by — God, it’s actually hopeful evidence that we are in a deep and eternal relationship with the Creator, whose will always and everywhere should supersede our own. |
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| Summary: This difficult story is unsparing in its insight as to what we, who aspire to be children of the light, are up against as we live in an age ruled by wealth and its keepers. |
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| Summary: Jesus praised the dishonest manager, not for his dishonesty, but for the focus and energy he applied. God calls us to put as much energy into our relationship with him. He has already given us the right gifts, but it’s up to us to decide how to use them. The world will be a better place when we use our gifts as God wants us to. |
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| Summary: Everything from the earth itself to the bodies in which we live is on loan to us from God. We are not the owners of such things, but the managers. As such we are responsible both as individuals and as a society to care for whatever we have been given. We are children of the light, but sometimes we need to apply that light with more prudence. |
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| Summary: Life isn’t over until it’s over. We know that in our modern process of predicting the outcome of elections and projecting a winner, there is a margin of error. In life, that margin of error in predicting our eternity is the cross of Calvary. The dishonest servant used his small window of opportunity to work toward securing his future. |
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| Summary: Jesus tells a parable about a man who, during a time of economic crisis, made decisions to benefit others as well as himself. What do you think you would do? |
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| Summary: Saying and even doing things that themselves are right can be a way to evade the responsibility of saying and doing the right thing about the situation you’re faced with. Jesus’ parable of the rich man and Lazarus is primarily a warning to those like the rich man, but its conclusion in the afterlife is a reminder that final condemnation and salvation are both in the hands of a loving God. |
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| Summary: The parable of the rich man and Lazarus speaks strongly to us who have plenty. The sin of the rich man was not that he did not solve all Lazarus’ problems, but that he did nothing at all.
Likewise, we cannot solve poverty. But we can do something, and for the good of our souls, we must.
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| Summary: Jesus’ parable of the rich man and Lazarus indicts us when we who are part of the “upstairs” crowd ignore the needs of the “downstairs” people who are around us. |
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| Summary: This parable is exactly that: a parable; it is not live video footage of what happens to us after we die. This, however, does not let us off the hook. The parable’s teaching is clear: Hardness of heart in the face of relievable human misery utterly and completely separates us from God and from the kingdom of heaven. |
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| Summary: We should help the “Lazaruses” at our gate. |
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| Summary: Jesus’ parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus tells us how to treat other people (and not about details of the afterlife). In doing so, it gets at the question of what it means to be human. Beyond philosophical or scientific definitions of humanity, we are called to be a community of mutual support and care. The most fundamental reason for this is the Incarnation of the Son of God. |
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