Luke | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Thu, 01 Oct 2015 08:29:52 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://anitamathias.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/cropped-Anita_lgr_hi_res_square_512-32x32.jpg Luke | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com 32 32 On Brothers and Inheritances, and When Jesus is Exasperating https://anitamathias.com/2013/05/26/on-brothers-and-inheritances-and-when-jesus-is-exasperating/ https://anitamathias.com/2013/05/26/on-brothers-and-inheritances-and-when-jesus-is-exasperating/#comments Sun, 26 May 2013 22:23:41 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=43233   So this is C. S Lewis’s famous trilemma: when Jesus is outrageous, as he often is, you have to decide. Do you laugh him off as a lunatic, blow him off as a liar, or bow the knee as to your Lord? The aggrieved brother in Luke 12 was faced with Lewis’s trilemma. “Teacher, tell my brother […]

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The post Thoughts on the Puzzling Parable of the Ten Minas first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2012/12/01/thoughts-on-the-parable-of-the-ten-minas/feed/ 6 The Parable of the Dishonest Steward. Frank Talk on Money. https://anitamathias.com/2012/11/01/the-parable-of-the-dishonest-steward-frank-talk-on-money/ Thu, 01 Nov 2012 23:01:51 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=37919 We grappled with The Parable of the Dishonest Steward (Luke 16 1-15) in my small group. The Steward soon to be dismissed, too old to dig, and too proud to beg, leverages the last thing he has–his connections– to make friends knit to him by gratitude once his job is over. He is commended for […]

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