Fr. Larry Richards is the founder and president of The Reason for our Hope Foundation, a non- profit organization dedicated to ”spreading the Good News” by educating others about Jesus Christ. His new homilies are posted each week.
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Healing Power
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We continue our trip through the Bible with today’s reading from Luke in which Jesus heals two people from very different segments of the community. The writer of Luke seems to have an interest in “the great reversal,” in which, for example, the downtrodden are elevated and those of privilege are taken down. These two healing stories in Luke 7 reflect in the realm of Jesus the equality of a centurion and a widow, whose stations in society are not at all the same. The two stories also comment on two stories in 2 Kings that involve the prophets, Elisha and Elijah, respectively. For us, it demonstrates the gathering of God’s people into a worshiping community, the church, where everyone is welcome at the table and is subject to God’s grace. We, as the church, need to realize how central this was to the ministry of Jesus, and how our own behaviors should reflect that.
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Contenuto fornito da Shelley Kuhlmeyer and West End UMC. Tutti i contenuti dei podcast, inclusi episodi, grafica e descrizioni dei podcast, vengono caricati e forniti direttamente da Shelley Kuhlmeyer and West End UMC o dal partner della piattaforma podcast. Se ritieni che qualcuno stia utilizzando la tua opera protetta da copyright senza la tua autorizzazione, puoi seguire la procedura descritta qui https://it.player.fm/legal.
We continue our trip through the Bible with today’s reading from Luke in which Jesus heals two people from very different segments of the community. The writer of Luke seems to have an interest in “the great reversal,” in which, for example, the downtrodden are elevated and those of privilege are taken down. These two healing stories in Luke 7 reflect in the realm of Jesus the equality of a centurion and a widow, whose stations in society are not at all the same. The two stories also comment on two stories in 2 Kings that involve the prophets, Elisha and Elijah, respectively. For us, it demonstrates the gathering of God’s people into a worshiping community, the church, where everyone is welcome at the table and is subject to God’s grace. We, as the church, need to realize how central this was to the ministry of Jesus, and how our own behaviors should reflect that.
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