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
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Even when we must endure, can we develop a thirst for what endurance is teaching us?
What will you do about the things you don’t yet understand?
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.