it's a squalid way to live
but it's the rules of the game A sermon on stewardship from the Gospel of Luke In his parable today, Jesus imagines a man who manages to make it. Someone who has a harvest to remember. Someone who, instead of squandering his good fortune, makes a plan to invest it. The fellow in today’s parable realizes the bumper crop for the opportunity that it is. And he takes it, too. He makes arrangements for this windfall to pay dividends for the rest of his life! And he goes to bed that night dreaming of the bright future he’s just made for himself. As it turns out, though, he buys the farm that night. Instead of settling into a comfortable life, he dies . And all that shrewd financial planning of his turns out to be a whole bunch of nothing . …From where we sit, this fellow is unlucky or, perhaps, unfortunate . Jesus, though, has another word. As far as Jesus is concerned, the chap in today’s parable didn’t catch a bad break. No, he was downright foolish . Now we oug...