13th Sunday After Pentecost
Deut 30:15-20; Luke 14:25-33 How is it September already? I can’t believe the summer is ending. The weather has certainly turned quickly on us and it is definitely starting to feel like fall. And man, I was really hoping to start the season off with something way more upbeat than the lessons we heard today. Because these lessons today especially the Gospel are pretty tough. But maybe they are also perfect. Because we open the scriptures today to another time of great transition. First, we turn to the book of Deuteronomy to see the Israelites perched on the banks of the Jordan gazing at the promised land. After 40 years in the dessert, their lives are about to change. Their life is the wilderness is ending and they are about to start a new life in the Promised Land. They have been freed from slavery and are about to start living on their own for the first time. And so God sits them down and lays before them a choic...