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Luke 16:13 No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money. I like to think that my greatest defects are things of the past.  Perhaps I just had the…
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Luke 15:25,28 Now his older son was in the field, and as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing…  But he was angry and refused to go in. I love Jesus’ story of the Prodigal Son.  I of course, am the wandering son who repented from his destructive ways to…
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Luke 15:20 He arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him. I clearly remember the despair in realizing the depth of my own destruction.  Like the Prodigal Son, I had pursued self and…
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Luke 15:14 When he had spent everything… He began to be in need… He was longing to be fed with the pods that the pigs ate, and no one gave him anything. As I said yesterday, I can identify with the prodigal son.  Taking his share of his inheritance from his father, the Prodigal set…
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Luke 15:13 Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living. I have a habit of inserting myself into a story to understand the characters.  I sympathize with, or at least understand the younger son in…
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Luke 14:27,33 Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple… Any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple. I clearly recall the justifications I made in college for drinking.  As I grew up in a home that did not consume…
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  Luke 14:16,18 A man once gave a great banquet and invited many…  But they all alike began to make excuses. I have lived with an excuse for every day of the week for refusing God’s invitation.  I would love to spend time with you God, but I need to sleep.  I have to work…
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Luke 14:12,13 When you give a dinner…do not invite your friends… lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid. But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. I turned into a coffee shop in the…
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Luke 14:11 Everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted. A friend and I were recently discussing an individual whom we find to be quite prideful.  The maddening thing, in our estimation, is that this person remains completely blind to that pride.  We would never act like that. We…
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Luke 13:2 Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered in this way? A couple times over the last week, I have been drawn into a conversation regarding the weight of sin.  Are some behaviors worse than others?  Is the drug dealer more evil than the thief?  Is…
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