Lectionary: Series A (486)
  1. The Church stands firm on the word of promise that Christ will one day return to change what we know by faith into sight.
  2. The Church stands firm on the word of promise that Christ will one day return to change what we know by faith into sight.
  3. In this context where death looms large, Jesus reveals a kingdom where life looms even larger.
  4. The resurrection of Jesus was the moment when the one true God appointed the Man through whom the whole cosmos would be brought back into its proper order. A man got us into this mess; the Man would get it out again.
  5. The “New David” will manifest the power of the LORD and will not set Himself in opposition as did the false shepherds.
  6. The tragedy of this parable is not the failure to serve. It is the failure to truly know your Savior.
  7. There is life after death and, more gloriously, there is life after life after death, the resurrection of the body.
  8. Obviously, the Day of the LORD looks frightening according to the words of Zephaniah the prophet. The question is: “For whom?”
  9. Because Israel has turned the eschatology of the Day of the LORD into “escapism” Amos turns that notion on its head in his prophecy.
  10. Mindful that the pagans’ understanding of death is a finality, Paul says, “NO!” Death is not the end of humanity in God’s new world.
  11. The parable is harsh. It judges. If you do not believe, you will not be saved. But let us pause for a moment and think about why Jesus is telling the parable.
  12. Jesus breaks through our barriers in His beatitudes. He shatters our conceptions of the blessed life and opens the Kingdom of God to all people.
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