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Rewriting the story of justice – March 30, 2025

March 30, 2025

Scripture: Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 How many times have we heard Jesus’s parable of the Prodigal Son from Luke 15? While the focus is usually on the son who leaves with his share of the inheritance and squanders it away, Melissa brings us a fresh perspective on the father and the eldest son. Not only was […]

Rewriting the story of justice – March 30, 2025

Tagged With: Gospel of Luke, Lent, Melissa Florer-Bixler, penance, prodigal son

The Angry son – March 26, 2022

March 28, 2022

The parable is The Prodigal Son but Melissa’s sermon focused on the older brother. The brother that stayed behind, served his father, tended the fields and flock and waited for his inheritance. He’s working in the field when his brother returns having squandered the inheritance he demanded while his father was still alive. Facing starvation […]

The Angry son – March 26, 2022

Tagged With: Gospel of Luke, Lent, Melissa Florer-Bixler, Pouring out, prodigal son, sermon

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