[Salvation]

Monsignor Pope Ping!

[Salvation]

The Greek didn’t come out — click on the source to see it.

[SumProVita]

Thanks for posting this. Yesterday, I found myself wondering what the language implications of that phrase were. Msgr. Pope is the BEST!

[Tax-chick]

It's funny that despite knowing passages like these, most of us still want to be rich!

Yes, it is funny.

[sigzero]

I may be wrong but every scripture that I have read that deals with money in a “bad” light is always talking about the persons heart.

[BenLurkin]

I am reminded of one preacher’s instruction about what to do when coming across a puzzling verse in the Bible.

He said to remember the words of the old hymn...

Read on, read on
read on, read on
read on, read on, read on

Read on, read on
read on, read on
read on, read on, read on.

Read on, read on
read on, read on
read on, read on, read on

Read on, read on
read on, read on
read on, read on, read on.

[Salvation]

Intro to Luke from the Bible.

http://usccb.org/bible/scripture.cfm?bk=Luke&ch=

Luke’s story of Jesus and the church is dominated by a historical perspective. This history is first of all salvation history. God’s divine plan for human salvation was accomplished during the period of Jesus, who through the events of his life (Lk 22:22) fulfilled the Old Testament prophecies (Lk 4:21; 18:31; 22:37; 24:26–27, 44), and this salvation is now extended to all humanity in the period of the church (Acts 4:12). This salvation history, moreover, is a part of human history. Luke relates the story of Jesus and the church to events in contemporary Palestinian (Lk 1:5; 3:1–2; Acts 4:6) and Roman (Lk 2:1–2; 3:1; Acts 11:28; 18:2, 12) history for, as Paul says in Acts 26:26, “this was not done in a corner.” Finally, Luke relates the story of Jesus and the church to contemporaneous church history. Luke is concerned with presenting Christianity as a legitimate form of worship in the Roman world, a religion that is capable of meeting the spiritual needs of a world empire like that of Rome. To this end, Luke depicts the Roman governor Pilate declaring Jesus innocent of any wrongdoing three times (Acts 23:29; 25:25; 26:31–32). At the same time Luke argues in Acts that Christianity is the logical development and proper fulfillment of Judaism and is therefore deserving of the same toleration and freedom traditionally accorded Judaism by Rome (Acts 13:16–41; 23:6–9; 24:10–21; 26:2–23).