Humility
Joshua Hosler • August 31, 2025
Jesus calls for a radical reordering of the social table.
2025-45
sermon preached at Church of the Good Shepherd, Federal Way, WA
www.goodshepherdfw.org
by the Rev. Anna Lynn, Deacon
The Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 17C-Tr1), August 31, 2025
Jeremiah 2:4-13 ;
Psalm 81:1, 10-16 ;
Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16 ;
Luke 14:1, 7-14
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Don’t take the good news that we are saved by faith and turn it into the bad news of having to muster something that cannot be mustered.
At what point will change just become too difficult for our souls to bear?
If there’s a loser in this story, it’s not any real people, but the power of money itself.
How bad can it get and still get better?
Did Jesus really say we have to give up all our possessions?
Stopping up our ears does nothing to prevent change ... and will absolutely make us less ready to endure it.
Why is Jesus being so hateful and divisive? Why can’t he bring people together instead?
The spiritual impulse is the urge to bridge the gap between the actual world (which is a mess) … and the security of a true homeland that we fear may not exist.
In the Nicene Creed, composed in the 4th century, every word counts.