What Possesses Me?
Joshua Hosler • September 8, 2025
Did Jesus really say we have to give up all our possessions?
2025-46
sermon preached at Church of the Good Shepherd, Federal Way, WA
www.goodshepherdfw.org
by the Rt. Rev. Phil LaBelle, Bishop of the Diocese of Olympia
The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 18C-Tr1), September 7, 2025
Jeremiah 18:1-11 ; Psalm 139:1-5, 12-17 ; Philemon 1-21 ; Luke 14:25-33
"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?
Jesus calls for a radical reordering of the social table.
Stopping up our ears does nothing to prevent change ... and will absolutely make us less ready to endure it.