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Podcast: West End UMC Podcast Audio Podcast
Episode: The Rich Fool
Description: Today’s reading is from Luke 12, continuing our series of readings from Luke as Jesus moves toward Jerusalem. In this text a man asks Jesus to tell his brother to divide his inheritance with him, and in response Jesus tells a parable about a man whose crops produced abundantly, and he was concerned with storing all that wealth. In some senses, this fellow seems practical in that he does things we do, saving for hard times. In the parable, all the pronouns are “I,” indicating that the man views all of the wealth as his without any thanks to God. What i...