Concerning Joy and Call
Jessica Isenberg • December 16, 2024
John does not ask the people to change the world, but rather to change themselves.
2025-03
Sermon preached at Church of the Good Shepherd, Federal Way, Wa
www.goodshepherdfw.org by Deacon Anna Lynn
Third Sunday of Advent
Zephaniah 3:14-20 ; Philippians 4:4-7 ; Luke 3:7-18 ; Canticle 9
Transcript in process
"This table is big enough for the whole world!"
We humans don't know how to do justice to justice.
God’s love is not something we can deserve.
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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?
Jesus calls for a radical reordering of the social table.