That Thing You Do!
Joshua Hosler • January 11, 2026
Do these difficult times call us to do new and different things? Well, maybe not ...
2026-09
sermon preached at Church of the Good Shepherd, Federal Way, WA
www.goodshepherdfw.org
by the Rev. Canon Carla Robinson
The Baptism of Our Lord: First Sunday after the Epiphany, January 11, 2026
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.
We don’t sacrifice our children to an angry god.
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.