Zacchaeus is a Biblical character who has his own little song. Perhaps you learned it in Sunday School. Zacchaeus was a wee little man,a wee little man was he.He climbed up in a sycamore tree,for the Lord he wanted to see.And as the Savior passed that way,he looked up in the tree,and he said, “Zacchaeus, […]
Category: social justice
The Prayers of the People: Judges, Widows, Pharisees,Tax Collectors, and Us
In Luke’s gospel, Jesus tells two parables about prayer one right after the other. That’s probably not an accident. Whether Jesus actually told these parable back to back or Luke puts them in this order, we should pause and wonder how each parable interprets the other. The first parable is about a widow who will […]
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