22nd Sunday After Pentecost
Luke 20:27-38 We are almost done with the Gospel of Luke, just a couple more weeks until the end of the liturgical year, but Luke, he is not yet done with us. Luke is still trying to get us to think in new ways and reorient our worldview in order to focus on what God thinks is truly important. And our gospel reading for today skips a little ways ahead from where we have been. It comes from right near the end of Jesus’s ministry after he has entered Jerusalem for the final time. All of Jesus’s counter cultural teaching, all of Jesus’s revolutionary ideas, all of Jesus’s pushing against the world order is finally beginning to come to a head. Those with the most to lose are really starting to push back. And so today’s lesson comes right in the middle of a string of encounters with people and groups questioning Jesus in the temple. Now lets be clear, these are not his friends or disciples, but rather people who are trying to either discredit him or get...