8/27/2023 0 Comments Luke 13 10 17 sermon writer![]() You’ll have to forgive me if that sounds sexist but keep in mind that I have had two daughters now run the gamut of our schooling system and I have become accustomed to the way girls in particular can enter into epic battles over who is somebody’s second-best friend, and the whole thing can get horribly political. I know the media are depicting this election as an epic battle between two towering titans, but it strikes me as being something more like a schoolyard tiff – something like a popularity contest between two teenage girls! Certainly it is a matter of spiritual significance – who we have as our elected leader! Even so, I have to confess that I personally find all this pre-election campaigning rather farcical! ![]() We’re in the middle of an election campaign here in Oz at the moment and I’m sure we should be making that more of a focus in our church gatherings. His answer made his enemies ashamed of themselves, while the people rejoiced over all the wonderful things that he did.” (Luke 13:10-17) Now here is this daughter of Abraham whom Satan has kept in bonds for eighteen years should she not be released on the Sabbath?” The Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Any one of you would untie your ox or your donkey from the stall and take it out to give it water on the Sabbath. The official of the synagogue was angry that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, so he spoke up and said to the people, “There are six days in which we should work so come during those days and be healed, but not on the Sabbath!” When Jesus saw her, he called out to her, “Woman, you are free from your sickness!” He placed his hands on her, and at once she straightened herself up and praised God. A woman there had an evil spirit that had kept her sick for eighteen years she was bent over and could not straighten up at all. “One Sabbath Jesus was teaching in a synagogue.
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