NewCity Orlando Sermons Luke 12:13-34 | Parables in Practice
Mar 23, 2026
A sermon exploring how attention shapes our desires and choices. A vivid bike accident story shows how misdirected focus causes harm. The parable of the rich fool and Jesus' teaching on anxiety are unpacked. Practical guardrails and the call to be generous and ‘rich toward God’ are highlighted as ways to refocus life.
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Attention Directs Affections
- Jason Dunn connects attention with affections: what you aim at shapes what you love and build your life around.
- He argues sin hijacks attention, redirecting affections toward foolishness and anxiety, causing spiritual crashes.
Parable Reveals Covetousness Not Property Rights
- Jesus uses a family dispute about inheritance to expose covetousness as the heart problem beneath the question.
- Jason Dunn highlights Jesus' commands to 'take care' and 'be on your guard' as attention language warning against coveting.
Coveting Is An Inward Appetite
- Coveting defined as desiring more than one's due, an inward appetite that claims 'mine' and moves us inward rather than outward in love.
- Dunn cites Augustine and frames covetousness as the reverse side of love, fueling insatiability.