Today we read the most challenging of the parables of Jesus – yet its’ primary meaning is unmistakable.  Jesus uttered it in relation to our purpose in life – how it comes down to one of two things.  Jesus sums it all up in today’s reading in Luke.  “No servant can serve two masters … he will be devoted to the one and ...

Today, in Luke ch. 16, we have what are probably the two parables of Jesus that are the most challenging to understand.  They were not given to believers – but to unbelievers. We note their reaction!  “The Pharisees, who … heard all these things … ridiculed him.   And he said to them, ‘You are those who justify yourselves before ...