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The keynote of the Gospel of Luke is God’s love. Luke was “obviously a man of culture, with an appreciation of the beautiful, and he could write well. But it is not any or all of these that accounts for the beauty of this writing. Rather it is the way the love of God shines through in parable and saying and story of Jesus. Luke’s theme is a grand one and he treats it at some length. His Gospel is...

Faithfulness is no accident: it arises out of what one is through and through. What one does with the small things of life one does also in the big things. Faithfulness or dishonesty appears throughout. Life is a unity. 11–12. Jesus contrasts the unrighteous mammon, earthly riches, with the true riches, the heavenly riches that God alone can give. In accordance with the principle laid down in the previous verse anyone who uses money in the wrong way shows himself unfitted to handle more important