17th Sunday after Pentecost
Luke 17:5-10 I mean Luke, why are you doing this to us? The last couple weeks were hard and this text certainly isn’t getting any better. I am going to have grey hair by the end of this if he keeps it up. So, our gospel lesson for the day comes in 2 parts, and nice normal little parable about faith and then this super dicey one about working slaves. And the first little bit is great. Jesus tells us that if we have faith the size of a mustard seed we would be able to say to the mulberry tree be uprooted and planted in the sea and it would obey. I like this parable, it is what I like to call children’s sermon material. It simple and straightforward and easy enough that even a child can understand it. It even lends itself to handy visual aids and I indeed have whole grain mustard seeds in my spice cabinet for this exact reason. They are at least 10 years old and I have no earthly idea what one would actually ...