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2 posted on 09/21/2013 12:24:36 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson (Lutheran pastor, LCMS)
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To: Charles Henrickson

Thank you! As usual, you tell me what I NEED to hear when I NEED to hear it.

Funny how God works through you to get to me, ain’t it? ;)


3 posted on 09/21/2013 2:08:50 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: Charles Henrickson

I don’t believe Jesus is commending shrewdness that encourages stealing from our fellow man.


4 posted on 09/21/2013 2:11:31 PM PDT by B4Ranch (AGENDA: Grinding America Down ----- <<http://vimeo.com/63749370)
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To: Charles Henrickson

Thank you!

I appreciate your sermons.

This parable has always bothered me. We are perhaps meant to struggle with it a bit.

Maybe Christ is the rich man and we are all managers who are given gifts that we misuse. How do we behave shrewdly? Managers redirecting those goods we received from God towards our neighbors, which was always God’s intent? Every metaphor breaks down at a certain point and I may be over-analyzing. Commended for Shrewdness, not theft!


11 posted on 09/21/2013 5:50:00 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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