What Possesses Me?
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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