Sermons

Graham invited me to post a sermon outline that I recently posted on my blog: http://pastorburt.lifewithchrist.org

The sermon is from Pentecost Sunday, May 11, 2008.

In the parable that we're gonna look at, Jesus talks about losing things – or, more properly, about finding things. In the first section of this passage, Jesus tells the parable of the lost sheep. The shepherd has 100 sheep, and one wanders off and becomes lost. Yet, amazingly, the shepherd leaves the 99 sheep to go and find the one who was lost. And there is great rejoicing when the lost sheep is found.

In the second part, Jesus tells the parable of the lost coin. A woman has ten coins. She loses one and quite naturally sweeps the entire house clean looking for it. When she eventually finds the lost coin, she calls all her neighbours together and says, "Celebrate with me for I have found my lost coin." And finally Jesus tells the longest, the most famous and the most gripping of all three parables, the parable of the lost son, and that’s the one that we’re going to focus on this morning.