Sunday Sermon

It is interesting to see how people who come from nothing can become something. It is encouraging to see how hard work can pay off. Their stories are encouraging, instructive, and inspiring. Equally interesting and instructive, though, can be the opposite: riches to rags stories. It is just as common to hear stories about those who had it all and then lost it all. Luke shows us both sides of this in our parable as he builds on his great reversal theme. We see a rags-to-riches story and riches-to-rags one that serves to warn and instruct!