Sermons on Lucas 17:8:

17th Sunday After Pentecost. October 5th, 2025. Series

Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Sep 25, 2022

Year C, Proper 22.

Lamentations 1:1-6, Lamentations 3:19-26, Psalm 137, Habakkuk 1:1-4, Habakkuk 2:1-4, Psalm 37:1-9, 2 Timothy 1:1-14, Luke 17:5-10 A). ALAS FOR THE CITY. Lamentations 1:1-6. LAMENTATIONS 1:1. The opening word could be rendered, “Alas!” The translation “How” introduces an exclamation, but also ...read more

Scripture: Lamentations 1:1-6, Lamentations 3:19-26, Habakkuk 1:1-4, Habakkuk 2:1-4, Psalm 37:1-9, 2 Timothy 1:1-14, Luke 17:5-10  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Faith To Forgive

Contributed by I. Grant Spong on Sep 26, 2022

Do we have enough faith to forgive? Let’s see what Jesus says about how much faith is needed to forgive in Luke 17:5-10.

Do we have enough faith to forgive? Let’s see what Jesus says about how much faith is needed to forgive in Luke 17:5-10. Faith to Forgive Let’s not isolate Jesus' comments from their context. “One day Jesus said to his disciples, ‘There will always be temptations to sin, but what sorrow ...read more

Scripture: Luke 17:5-10

Denomination: Baptist

Lord, Increase Our Faith!

Contributed by Mark A. Barber on Sep 28, 2022

All too often, our faith falls short of faithfulness.

Increase Our Faith Luke 17:5-10 Increase Our Faith.” This has been the request of countless Christians over the ages. How we all would like more faith. We are like the man with the possessed son when confronted by Jesus to believe answered, “I believe; help my unbelief.” (Mark 9:24) This brings up ...read more

Scripture: Luke 17:5-10, Luke 17:1-10

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Uprooting Trees And Being Unprofitable Servants

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Sep 30, 2022

God’s gift is enough for us. We just have to apply that mustard-seed faith we are given and trust that God will give us what we need.

Twenty-seventh Sunday in Course 2022 Today’s Gospel might whipsaw our brains a little, particularly if you read the whole chapter. Right before this passage, Jesus has been warning His disciples, and therefore us, against teaching others to sin. That’s called scandal. Here He speaks about the ...read more

Scripture: Habakkuk 1:2-3, Habakkuk 2:2-4, 2 Timothy 1:6-14, Luke 17:5-10

Denomination: Catholic

Faith And Fear

Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Sep 11, 2023

We ask for more faith than we realize we have. We let it lie dormant in us, while all the time God is there, and our faith in God is there, doing very little.

There is a legend from the Orient about a traveler making his way to a large city. One night he meets two other travelers along the road: Fear and Plague. Plague explains to the traveler that, once they arrived, they are expected to kill 10,000 people in the city. The traveler asks Plague if Plague ...read more

Scripture: Luke 17:5-10, 2 Timothy 1:7

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Know Your Place

Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Sep 11, 2023

God doesn’t owe us, he owns us. In fact, he owns us twice over: first through the right of creation, and second through the right of purchase.

The great preacher Ray Stedman used to tell a wonderful story of a faithful missionary couple returning from Africa back in the days of Teddy Roosevelt. After years of service they came back on the same ship as President Roosevelt, who was returning from a big game hunting expedition in Africa. ...read more

Scripture: Luke 17:7-10

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

A Measure Of Faith Series

Contributed by D. Dewaine Phillips on Mar 28, 2022

When asking God for faith, we are correct in identifying that we need faith, or that perhaps we’re experiencing some kind of spiritual problem. However, we don’t need “more” faith. What we need is the faith already allotted to us.

Our message for this evening is entitled, “A Measure of Faith,” and it’s taken from a passage of Scripture that’s sometimes called, “Faith and Duty.” Have you ever felt inadequate in your relationship with God, or perhaps in your ability to bear spiritual fruit? Have you ever felt that you don’t ...read more

Scripture: Luke 17:5-10

Denomination: Baptist

When God Seems Distant: The Teacher Is Silent During The Test Series

Contributed by Justin Steckbauer on Feb 12, 2024

It all goes back to the heart. Guard your heart. Keep your heart encouraged. And in prayer, always believe in your heart that God is there and will answer.

There have been a few times in my life when I felt God’s presence depart from me. And it was for the purpose of testing me, to see what decision I’ll make without his presence strong upon me. Don’t get me wrong, God was still with me in those times. He hadn’t left me or forsaken me. But, his ...read more

Scripture: James 1:12, Romans 5:3-5, Luke 17:7-10

Denomination: Salvation Army

The Christian's Duty Series

Contributed by Glenn Pease on Mar 26, 2021

Verse 10 contains the only recorded instance in Scripture where our Lord used the word duty. He taught us all that is necessary to know about duty by a simple illustration and application.

In his book Merely Colossal, Arthur Mayer tells of how he hired a stunt man to be buried alive as a publicity stunt for a film he was promoting. The stunt man knew how to breathe in such a way that he could stay buried for 24 hours and not suffocate. After the papers made a big splash about a man ...read more

Scripture: Luke 17:7-10

Trusting In A Tough Teaching

Contributed by Nickolas Kooi on Oct 3, 2019

This sermon looks at Jesus' four teachings here: taking sin seriously, rebuking, forgiving, and serving. This sermon applies the text at each point, and does so in a Gospel approach.

“Just climb up, sit down, let go, and enjoy, honey!” Lainey’s father to said to her. Little Lainey had recently learned how to swim, and was now standing on the ladder of the water slide, frozen in fear. Lainey had just started jumping into the pool, and then would frantically dog paddle back ...read more

Scripture: Luke 17:1-10

Denomination: Lutheran

Doing Your Duty

Contributed by Gaither Bailey on Oct 4, 2019

Serving God is not over until they are shoveling dirt on your face.

Doing Your Duty Luke 17: 5 - 10 Intro: During a tornado a mother was crying for help. It seems that her son was taken up into the tornado and blown away. The mother turned to heaven and shouted a prayer: “Please, Lord, bring back my son! He’s all I have. I’ll do anything to get him back.”--- ...read more

Scripture: Luke 17:5-10

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

"mustard Seed Faith"

Contributed by Gerald Roberts on Oct 7, 2019

what a little faith can do.

Luke 17:5-10 “Little Faith” Nursing home rehab little steps, small steps and then eventually home. They are mustard seed steps, little steps, or little faith. 1. . If you have a Little Faith Disciples you can Forgive Others • 3So watch yourselves. "If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if ...read more

Scripture: Luke 17:5-10

Denomination: Methodist

A Faith Sufficient For Living

Contributed by Mary Erickson on Oct 7, 2019

Faith as small as a seed is a powerful thing. The essence of our faith doesn't change. It's the same faith that was instilled in us as a small child. We always stay connected to that essential center.

October 6, 2019 Hope Lutheran Church Luke 17:5-10; 2 Timothy 1:1-14 A Faith Sufficient for Living Friends, may grace and peace be yours in abundance in the knowledge of God and Christ Jesus our Lord. The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!” There’s something about their request ...read more

Scripture: Luke 17:5-10, 2 Timothy 1:1-14

Denomination: Lutheran

Faith And Forgiveness.

Contributed by Fr. Rian Adams on Oct 7, 2019

This sermon is how faith "the size of a mustard seed" actually gives us the ability to offer forgiveness to others.

"Faith and Forgiveness" Allow me to begin today with some self-disclosure: I do not understand exactly what faith is, or how it works. But I have a couple of ideas from the lesson that might be helpful. More on that in a moment, but first I’ve got to share some humor. Have you ever ...read more

Scripture: Luke 17:5-10

Denomination: Episcopal

A Servant Of God Series

Contributed by Brad Bailey on Nov 25, 2019

A Servant of God Series: Encountering Jesus (through the Gospel of Luke) Brad Bailey – November 24, 2019

A Servant of God Series: Encountering Jesus (through the Gospel of Luke) Brad Bailey – November 24, 2019 Series #48 / Luke 17:1-10 Intro Throughout the recent weeks …in which there has been a public impeachment hearing… there has been a lot of reference to the phrase… “Abuse of Power.” We are not ...read more

Scripture: Luke 17:1-10

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational