Church is not Optional: Luke 14:15-24, Hebrews 10:22-39

The parable in today’s Gospel reading is one confrontation in a sea of confrontations by Jesus with the Pharisees.  But Jesus told today’s particular parable when He was eating dinner at the house of a “prominent Pharisee” (Luke 14:1).  So, the dinner story line in today’s parable was meant to hit home, as the Pharisees […]