{"id":1261,"date":"2025-08-03T13:49:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T12:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2025-08-03T13:52:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T12:52:26","slug":"the-parable-of-the-rich-fool-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/2025\/08\/03\/the-parable-of-the-rich-fool-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Parable of the Rich Fool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sermon from St Andrews Church, Slip End, UK. Given by Rev Cathy Pullinger on the 3\/8\/25. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/030825_202508\" width=\"500\" height=\"30\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Download Mp3&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/030825_202508\/030825.mp3\">HERE!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sermon starts at 1:25<\/p>\n\n\n\n<font color=\"red\">Luke 12:13-21\n<br><br>\nThe Parable of the Rich Fool<\/font>\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>13<\/b><\/font> Someone in the crowd said to him, \u201cTeacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.\u201d\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>14<\/b><\/font> Jesus replied, \u201cMan, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you?\u201d \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>15<\/b><\/font> Then he said to them, \u201cWatch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.\u201d\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>16<\/b><\/font> And he told them this parable: \u201cThe ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>17<\/b><\/font> He thought to himself, \u2018What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.\u2019\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>18<\/b><\/font> \u201cThen he said, \u2018This is what I\u2019ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>19<\/b><\/font> And I\u2019ll say to myself, \u201cYou have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.\u201d\u2019\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>20<\/b><\/font> \u201cBut God said to him, \u2018You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?\u2019\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>21<\/b><\/font> \u201cThis is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God.\u201d\n<br><br>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon from St Andrews Church, Slip End, UK. Given by Rev Cathy Pullinger on the 3\/8\/25. Download Mp3&nbsp;HERE! Sermon starts at 1:25 Luke 12:13-21 The Parable of the Rich Fool 13 Someone in the crowd said to him, \u201cTeacher, tell &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/2025\/08\/03\/the-parable-of-the-rich-fool-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1263,"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions\/1263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}