Repentance & the Coming Storm(s): A Sermon on Luke 13
A sermon on Luke 13:1-9 that I preached on March 23rd at Riverway, St. Martin's, Houston. (The video is of the whole service, the sermon** begins at about the 18minute mark.)
Luke 13:1-9
At that very time there were some present who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. 2He asked them, ‘Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were worse sinners than all other Galileans? 3No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish as they did. 4Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower of Siloam fell on them—do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others living in Jerusalem? 5No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish just as they did.’ 6Then he told this parable: ‘A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came looking for fruit on it and found none. 7So he said to the gardener, “See here! For three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and still I find none. Cut it down! Why should it be wasting the soil?” 8He replied, “Sir, let it alone for one more year, until I dig round it and put manure on it. 9If it bears fruit next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut it down.” ’
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**To correct something I said in my sermon: while G.B. Caird was a wonderful British biblical scholar, he was not an Anglican but a congregational minister. Forgive the mistaken assumption!
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