Dylan's Lectionary Blog, Proper 20C, 2007. Biblical Scholar Sarah Dylan Breuer looks at readings for the coming Sunday in the lectionary of the Episcopal Church.

"What's in my heart and yours matters, to be sure. It matters to God."

Blogging toward Sunday, Jo Bailey Wells, Theolog: The Blog of The Christian Century.

"The dishonest manager realizes that generosity is the best investment. He gets himself out of a hole by building social capital."

"God's Business Sense," Mary Hinkle, Pilgrim Preaching.

"The prodigal and the manager are both squandering their resources. Jesus is doing the opposite. He is gathering up lost human resources. That gathering is his reason for coming, his reason for being."

"Exegetical Considerations," Pentecost 16, Richard Carlson, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, Using Greek for Sunday Text Preparations.

"How does dechomai function as a hospitality term in vv. 4,6,7,9 as it (and its cognates) do in 9:5,48; 10:8,10,38; 15:3; 19:6?"

Exegetical Notes by Brian Stoffregen at CrossMarks Christian Resources.

"Could it be that the steward was such a people-pleasure that he didn't collect what was due the owner?"

Dylan's Lectionary Blog, Proper 20C, 2004. Biblical Scholar Sarah Dylan Breuer looks at readings for the coming Sunday in the lectionary of the Episcopal Church.

"It boils down to the same thing: deluded or sane, selfish and/or unselfish, there is no bad reason to forgive."

"Wealth: Hazmat or Good Gift?" study guide, Robert B. Kruschwitz, (other resources at) "Parables," Christian Reflection, The Center for Christian Ethics at Baylor University, 2006.

Laterally Luke, by Brian McGowan, Anglican priest in Western Australia.

"A Different Kind of Friendship," Expository Essay, Dr. William R. Long.

"When we learn that we can also "calculate" as we live our lives, that we can "leverage" our "contacts" and financial shrewdness, and that this is commended by Jesus, we have a great way of complementing the earlier lessons we learned from the Gospel of Luke."

"Shrewd Investment," Jennifer E. Copeland, The Christian Century, 2004.

"The manager in Jesus’ story used all his resources to secure his future. We must be no less resourceful."

"Profit and Loss," Christine Pohl, The Christian Century, 2001.

"Jesus does not commend the manager’s practices, but rather his insight into the connection between resources and relationships."

Wellspring of the Gospel, Ordinary 25, Catherine McElhinney and Kathryn Turner, Weekly Wellsprings.

"Squandered Moments," Jerry Goebel, One Family Outreach. "Focus on scripture from a justice perspective." Exegesis, study, and teen study and activities.

"The more you forgive; the wiser you are."

"God and Mammon," Rev. Bryan Findlayson, Lectionary Bible Studies and Sermons, Pumpkin Cottage Ministry Resources.

"Accountability," Frederick J. Streets, The Christian Century, 1993.

"What is the secret to the power of the Christian faith - particularly for those who have been poor in things and have occupied the lowest position of status and power, but yet have devoted themselves to God, helped others when their resources were limited, and remained faithful and committed to the end of their days?"

"Materialism," wikipedia.

"Honor Restored: New Light on the Parable of the Prudent Steward (Luke 16:1-8a)," David Landry, University of St Thomas and Ben May, University of Minnesota-Duluth Medical School.

"Of What Charges?" John G. Lygre, Biblical Theology Bulletin, 2002.

"The probability that the steward is irresponsible or derelict in his duties rather than guilty of immoral or criminal actions significantly affects how other elements of this parable are understood."

"The Radical Jesus: You Cannot Serve God and Mammon," Douglas E. Oakman, Biblical Theology Bulletin, 2004.

"Based on philological considerations and contextualization of the very earliest Jesus traditions, especially Luke 16:13, this article argues that at the core of the concern of Jesus of Nazareth was a critique of Mammon, carried on under the proclamation of God's ruling power, that may still today leave Christians in an Age of Mammon with an uneasy conscience."

"The Old Testament in the New: A Jewish Perspective," David Daube, in Appeasement or Resistance and Other Essays on New Testament Judaism. University of California Press, 1987. (Scroll down to "VI - For Their Generation.")

"Jesus: Challenge to the Comfortable," Fr. Patrick Brennan, 30 Good Minutes, Chicago Sunday Evening Club, 1998.

"Money and Wise Investments for the Future," Pastor Edward F. Markquart, Grace Lutheran Church, Seattle, Washington.

"Oikonomiks," Pastor Edward F. Markquart, Grace Lutheran Church, Seattle, Washington.

"Caught on Tape," John Jewell, 1998.

Father Andrew M. Greeley, "Priest, Author, Sociologist," Commentary and Homily.

	Ordinary 25, 2007
	Ordinary 25, 2001 (Dr Mary Durkin)