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:
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.
We don’t sacrifice our children to an angry god.
Do these difficult times call us to do new and different things? Well, maybe not ...
This newborn child threatens our security. What will we do?
We meet God in the holy place where the stories are kept.
Let the words wash over you, and then hold them up against your own super-specific life.
The Bible is chock full of stories of God taking drastic measures. So why this ... baby?
God took an ordinary "Fonzie-man" and guided him to become an extraordinary father.