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Having arrived in Jerusalem, Jesus very publicly travels to the Temple and begins to teach. It is a direct confrontation of and threat to the Sadducees (the Jewish sect governing the Temple). It is effectively Jesus’s last stand.

Here on the mount where heaven and earth meet, Jesus will either persuade Israel to return to her first love, or he will seal his fate as a martyr.

In this episode we look at Jesus’s teaching in the Temple and why it is that God’s people will persecute their own messiah.

Text for this sermon is Luke 19:47-20:19 (NRSV).

 

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At last Jesus makes his entrance into Jerusalem – a scene loaded with symbolism of conquest and deliverance for Israel. Yet as we examine the story in detail, the foreshadowing of death and destruction come into view.

This is a heartrending passage – one filled with hopes that will be dashed. Kleenex is highly recommended.

Text for this sermon is Luke 19:29-46 (NRSV).

 

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As Jesus prepares for his final journey into Jerusalem, he tells the gathered crowd a terrifying story about a nobleman and his 3 slaves. And we’ll just say that things do not end well for at least one of the slaves! (Really, really not well.)

Our challenge is to interpret the parable: Who is the nobleman?  Who are the slaves? And what lesson are we to learn???

In this episode we explore three options and discover there are no easy answers. But part of the work of maturity is learning to live with ambiguity.

Text for this sermon is Luke 19:11-28 (NRSV).

 

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