Why Does the Church Exist? If you were to catch someone on the street and ask them what church is about or why it exists, you’d probably get a bunch of different answers. Some people might say it’s a club.
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Church’s Vision?
The Intent of the Law
10th Sunday of Luke A lot of people come to church to grow closer to God. But, some people find out that that religion actually pushes them away from God. It’s like medicine that makes you sick, or a law
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13th Sunday of Luke If the rich young ruler had obeyed all the commandments since his youth, if he was an upstanding young man, why wasn’t this enough for Jesus? How could he be lacking anything? Today, a young ruler
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5th Sunday of Luke There are two men in today’s reading, but only one is actually named. It’s the poor man who has been given the name Lazarus. This name means, “the one whom God helps.” The other man is
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7th Sunday of Luke Today, we get two for the price of one. The reading starts with a ruler of a synagogue coming to Jesus. His daughter is sick and he wants Jesus to come to his house and heal
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6th Sunday of Luke Most of us are familiar with the healing of the Gerasene Demoniac. Jesus travels into foreign territory where he encounters a crazed man living among the tombs. When Jesus confronts the demons possessing the man, they
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Sunday of the 7th Ecumenical Council The parable of the sower answers a critical question for many Christians: why have so many people rejected the gospel? As we find out, the sower represents Christ, or anyone who is teaching the
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3rd Sunday of Luke This Gospel passage finds Jesus entering the town of Nain. Just as he arrives, he comes across a funeral possession for a young man who has left behind his widowed mother. Moved with compassion by the
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2nd Sunday of Luke Today’s gospel lesson comes at the end of the “Sermon on the Plain.” The first line is one of the most famous verses from scripture, the Golden Rule—“Do to others as you would have them do
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First Sunday of Luke In today’s Gospel lesson, we see the “three pillars” (Simon, James, and John) in an unflattering light. Even though they hadn’t caught anything, Jesus finds them cleaning their nets. They should have been hard at work
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