How Are You a Neighbor?
Joshua Hosler • July 13, 2025
"We are now being faced with a series of choices between the demands of the federal government and the teachings of Jesus, and that is no choice at all."
- The Most Rev. Sean Rowe, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church
2025-38
sermon preached at Church of the Good Shepherd, Federal Way, WA
www.goodshepherdfw.org
by the Rev. Anna Lynn, Deacon
The Fifth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 10C-Tr1), July 13, 2025
Amos 7:7-17 ;
Psalm 82 ;
Colossians 1:1-14 ;
Luke 10:25-37
Art credit: Olga Bakhtina, "Good Samaritan with Lily"
retrieved from https://olgabakhtina.com/painting/good-samaritan-with-a-lily/ on 7/13/2025
Source of Presiding Bishop’s statement:
Faith does not spare us from grief. It gives us language for it.
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.