Gifts of Faith: Hope
Joshua Hosler • March 22, 2026
Faith does not spare us from grief. It gives us language for it.
2026-20
sermon preached at Church of the Good Shepherd, Federal Way, WA
www.goodshepherdfw.org
by the Rev. Anna Lynn, Deacon
The Fifth Sunday in Lent, March 22, 2026
These are the goals of the leadership of Good Shepherd for 2026.
New forms of clarity can alienate us from the communities we’d always depended on before.
Even when we must endure, can we develop a thirst for what endurance is teaching us?
What will you do about the things you don’t yet understand?
The myth of Eden is to be believed in ... not taken literally.
We live in a beautiful world, but we’ve made a mess of it. So how do we fix it?
Over time, these stories will become your own stories. So keep coming back to them.
We are the light of the world, Jesus tells us. And we are salt ... and salt melts ice!
Do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with your God.
Christians must stand between the powers of this world and the most vulnerable.