Luke 16:19-31; The Comfort of Paradise, the Anguish of Torment

Luke 18:1-8; The Persistence of Faith

Eighth Sunday after Pentecost Pastor Josh Harp What notes are to a musician, and what the alphabet is to a reader, and what numerals are to a mathematician, the fear of the Lord is to a wise man. Bruce K. Waltke

Luke 17: 20-37; The Coming Kingdom of God

Seventh Sunday after Pentecost Pastor Josh Harp The story of God’s work of redemption is what Presbyterians often mean when we talk about “covenant.” We meant to account for how God, from the very beginning of human history, has been working out the redemption of a chosen people for his own glory. Sean Michael Lucas, On Being Presbyterian

Luke 17:11-19; Have Mercy on Us

Sixth Sunday after Pentecost Pastor Josh Harp [On Evil] I was trying to find the origin of evil, but I was quite blind to the evil in my own method of research. Augustine, Confessions, 7.5

Luke 17:1-10; Unworthy Servants

Fifth Sunday after Pentecost Pastor Josh Harp Perhaps the greatest threat to the church today isn't falling for doctrinal heresy but implicitly adopting the consumerist, self-centered assumptions of our Western culture. Wendall Berry

Nehemiah 2: God's Mission Through A Broken People

Fourth Sunday after Pentecost Rev Alex Diaz We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful. C.S. Lewis