Thank God I found my wallet. Thank God it's Friday. Thank God I got a good parking spot.

Darlene Stratton, back at Litchfield Nazarene in an interim role, wants to know whether any of that counts as fervent.

In the second half of a series she started in July, she goes to Luke 17 and the ten men with leprosy who were all healed and all did exactly what Jesus told them to do. One turned around and came back. Jesus asked where the other nine were, and Darlene spends a while being honest about why she can't be too hard on them.

Then she goes underneath the story. Most Bibles split Luke 17 into three separate pieces with headings, and she argues they were never meant to be read apart. What sits right before the ten lepers is a request. What sits right after is a group of people missing the whole thing.

There are also two different Greek words for healing in that passage, and only one man got the second one.

Preached Sunday morning, September 13, 2026. Part two of Thank God, from Luke 17 and Romans 1.

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