Opening Address The Gospel this morning hands out three unequal sums before a single person in it has done anything at all, and it gives the reason in a single clause: to every one according to his proper ability. Five talents to one man, two to another, one to a third. Not a standard allocation […]
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Opening Address Everyone remembers the accounting. The master comes home, the servants line up, the sums are read out, and one man is thrown into the dark. What almost nobody remembers is the sentence the two commended men actually hear, which is not a score and not a ranking but this: faithful over a few […]