Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax-collector.  This should be pretty straightforward because in the world of Luke’s Gospel the Pharisees are the butt of the story and the tax collectors are loveable rogues who end up doing good, right?

Luke's Gospel is filled with stories like this where the surprise of grace is discovered not in holy, pious, religious, people but in seeing reality through the lens of God's Kingdom.

When Jesus heals 10 men only one comes back to say thank you?  Why?  And does it matter that the one who does is a foreigner?

More faith please. Which one of us wouldn’t want some of that? There are times in all of our lives when we feel like we could do with more faith. So, when the disciples ask Jesus if they can have some more his answer is alarming and not really what we would expect. So, why is that? Why is faith the size of a mustard seed enough?

When Jesus tells us a parable about a rich man ignoring the poor man who lives at the bottom of his garden, it’s easy for us to agree.  To say ‘Yeah, that’s terrible!  People should behave better.”  But that’s not what parables are for.  Parables are about teaching us something about ourselves and about God.  This isn’t a story about someone else.

It's time to decide... who are you going to serve?

Jesus tells some stories about lost things and the joy of finding...

I wonder what comes to mind when you hear the word ‘possession’? Does it send you into a world of scary movies? Or do you think about the things you own? What if I was to tell you that those two things are more closely linked than it might seem?

As inflation rockets and people worry about how they will heat their homes today we encounter Jesus taking a huge swipe at entitlement.  He tells his important host that there is a different way to live and that the rewards are far greater than a better seat at a Friday night dinner.

When Jesus heals a woman on the sabbath he gets in trouble from a religious leader who has completely misunderstood what sabbath is and what it is for.  So what is it?  And why should that matter to us?