St George's Sermon Blog

  Luke 12:32-40 At least we are back inside this week, but I am sure it is any better in here and we are hot and we are tired, and then we get to hear yet another text from Luke about money.   Which actually should be pretty unsurprising because Luke loves to talk about money almost more than anything else, except perhaps maybe hospitality and food.   In fact, half of all the parables in Luke are about money, wealth and our resources.   Half.   Let that sink in for a moment.   Jesus talks about money 10 times as often as he talks about sex.   And much more often even than he talks about worship or the bible or even prayer.   Now the fact that Jesus actually talks about money this much may really surprise you.   It certainly surprised me the first time I heard it.   Maybe it’s because the church it seems very often likes to take exactly the opposite approach.   We talk a whole lot about how to worship and pray, we deliberate deep...

Luke 12:13-21 I really am trying to make this summer hard on myself apparently.   This again is not the lectionary trio I would have picked for today if given the choice.   We’re outside, we’re welcoming our pet friends, we have a band, it’s a joyful day.   And to make it harder, we only hear half of the Gospel story and so you have to come back next week to hear the rest.   Yet here we are with a trio of texts that are less than joyful and quite frankly a bit depressing because they are unmistakably about facing our own mortality and the legacy we leave behind, voluntarily or not. For all three texts in series make a point of reminding us that one day, we are all going to die, and well as the old adage says, “You can’t take it with you.”   So the question becomes, What do you want your legacy to be?   First, out of the great wisdom tradition in Ecclesiastes we have the lament from a great king who at the end of a long and successful reign looks around ...