Woman with a Crippling Spirit

Textweek info on Luke 13:10-17

The Rich Young Ruler

Textweek for Mark 10:17-22

“The Suffering Woman” (Mark 5:24-34)

Textweek for Mark 5:21-43

Commonly referred to as the Woman with the Issue of Blood, which is inserted into the story of the healing of Jairus' daughter.

SERMON SERIES FOR LENT

Sunday, March 1 - “The Demoniac” (Luke 8: 26-39)

Sunday, March 8 - “The Suffering Woman” (Mark 5 - 24-34)

Sunday, March 15 - “The Rich Young Ruler” (Mark 10: 17-22)

Sunday, March 22 - “The Best Woman” (Luke 13: 10-17)

Palm Sunday, March 29 - “Simon of Cyrene” (Matthew 27:32)

Easter Sunday, April 5 - “Mary Magdelene” (John 20: 1-18)

MIDWEEK SERIES

 Wednesday, February 25 – The Rev. David Wickmann, visitation pastor at Schoeneck

 “Supper with Simon the Pharisee” (Luke 7:36-50)

 Wednesday, March 4 – The Rev. Tracy Robinson, co-pastor of Esperanza for Bethlehem

 “Supper for 5,000” (Luke 9:10-17)

 Wednesday, March 11 – The Rev. Jeff Gehris, pastor of Nazareth Moravian Church

 “Supper with Mary and Martha” (Luke 10:38-42)

 Wednesday, March 18 – The Rev. Rhonda Robinson, co-pastor of Esperanza /Bethlehem

 “The Last Supper” (Luke 22:7-20)

 Wednesday, March 25**– The Rev. Otto Dreydoppel, chaplain of Moravian Hall Square

 “Supper in Emmaus” (Luke 24:13-35)

 **Note: The service on March 25 will be held at the Nazareth Moravian Church, due to Schoeneck’s

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Matthew 20:1-16 - The Parable of the Vineyard Laborers
Textweek links

This parable is not about the "recruiter".  It is a parable about salvation and grace. To extrapolate a story about a recruiter out of this passage is to 1) add something to the story Jesus told without warrant, and 2) ignore the point of the parable (i.e. salvation in full is available no matter how early or late one arrives at the party).

Indeed, to twist this story away from God's grace and into a moral tale about how we should respond  to a call for workers takes the story completely out of context! In the previous chapter, immediately preceding this parable is the story of the "Rich Young Ruler" (so called because in one gospel he is identified as rich, in one young, and in one a ruler).  The man asks Jesus,  “Teacher, what good deed must I do to have eternal life?”, and when Jesus replies quoting several commandments. But the man already did those things - what else?

That is all.

A few of my favorite apologetics websites (in no particular order)

Cold Case Christianity - J. Warner Wallace, retired cold-case detective Equip.org - Hank Hanegraaff (The Bible Answer Man)
Bethinking.org
Stand to Reason
Apologetics315
CARM - Christian Apologetics Research Ministry

Science-focused
Reasons to Believe - Dr. Hugh Ross is an "Old Earth" Creationist
Evidence for God

I avoid Ken Hamm and Answers in Genesis ("Young Earth" creationism), but if you have some discernment it can be a helpful place.

The full text of The Screwtape Letters can be found here