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The Anxiety of Giving and Its Relief
Like bookends, this passage (Luke 12:22-34) is bracketed by money-matters. It comes on the heels of the parable of the rich fool, and closes with a command to sell your possessions and give to the poor. Such treatment of worldly wealth only makes sense to someone who recognizes how little value it really has. On April 9th, 1865. General Robert E. Lee surrendered. The Civil War is over. If someone down in South Carolina had known about these events, before…
Mary Counts the Cost
The news would be a boon to Zechariah, but would cost Mary dearly. The contrast between the Zechariah story and Mary’s is unmistakable. While they have enough in common to make it so, Luke ensures that we see the contrast by setting the stories next to each other. Incomparable John would be the greatest man to ever live. But that is only so because Jesus is incomparable. Jesus is unique. The Son of God, the eternal second Person of the…