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Rev. Peter Ill, pastor at Trinity Lutheran Church in Millstadt, IL, joins host Rev. Timothy Appel to study Luke 15:1-10. When the Pharisees disapprove of Jesus’ dinner company, the Lord takes the opportunity to teach them in parables concerning the grace of God that seeks and finds lost sinners. His first parable speaks of a shepherd who has one hundred sheep under his care. Perhaps surprisingly, he is willing to go to great lengths to search and find just one lost sheep. When he finds that sheep, his joy overflows into a party for his friends and neighbors. Jesus’ second parable grows in intensity; now a woman has ten coins and spares no effort to find one that is lost. Her joy similarly overflows when the lost is found. In both of these parables, Jesus teaches the shame and suffering that God is willing to endure in order to rescue sinners from death, and then the joy that overflows in heaven when His people are restored into His kingdom. “The Beloved Physician’s Orderly Account” is a mini-series on