Sermon preached by the Rev Dr Hugh Houghton for the Third Sunday of Lent.
Psalm 63:1-8, 1 Cor 10:1-13, Luke 13:1-9
May I speak in the name of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen.
This morning?s Gospel reading isn?t one we encounter very often, and I suspect that as it was read out you were either thinking ?I don?t remember this bit? or, if you won a prize for scripture knowledge at some point, maybe you thought to yourself ?It?s a while since this came up.? In one way, it?s not surprising that we don?t have it at the front of our minds: it?s rather inconclusive (we never find out what happened to the fig tree) and it poses not a few problems of interpretation………….
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