Month: July 2022

10
Jul

The Good Samaritan

Luke 10:25-37 Good Samaritan Hospital in Mt. Vernon, Illinois, has this most beautiful sculpture of the Good Samaritan,* with these words: “In Luke Chapter 10, the parable of the Good Samaritan is described. Jesus said to love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, strength, and mind, and to love your neighbor as […]

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07
Jul

Carry No Moneybag

“Carry no moneybag” (Luke 10:4). Among the multiple instructions given by Jesus to the seventy-two as He sent them out, this is the first: “Carry no moneybag.” It’s important for the pastor to understand. Paul puts it plainly when he writes that the pastor must not be “a lover of money” (1 Tim. 3:3). He […]

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