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Know Your Place—17th Sunday after Trinity

10/12/2014

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Readings: Proverbs 25:6-14; Ephesians 4:1-6; Luke 14:1-11

In the name of the Father and of the +Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.

Know your place. Especially on Thanksgiving weekend when all the family gathers. The kids at the card table. The adults, and heads of the family aligned in order at the big table. The father at the head carving the turkey. Ya. Right. Those vestiges of yesteryear are rarely found anymore. And most of us react rather viscerally to such ideas. Some of you may say, “Ah, the good old days when all was right in world.” Others may say, “Ah, the bad old days when all was vile, patriarchal, and oppressive.”

Yet here is Jesus saying, “Know your place. Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought.” And giving us a lesson in how to win friends and influence people; how to be shown great honour in your community, by forcing the hand of the one who invited you to raise your profile, your status by giving you a better place in the banquet. A place of honour. Thus, you will be shown to be humble, and to be of high rank all at the same time. A win-win for you. Ya. Right.


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Up & Down---17th Sunday after Trinity

9/22/2013

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Proverbs 25:6-14

Ephesians 4:1-6
Luke 14:1-11



In the name of the Father and of the +Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.  

One Sabbath day Our Lord gets invited to a family dinner after church.  Remember though that the Sabbath for the Jews was Saturday, the seventh day of the week.  That was the day when God had rested from all His work of creating.  Six days He spoke things into existence.  The seventh day He stopped, resting eternally from all His work of creating so that there is “nothing new under the sun” (Ecclesiastes 1:9).   That means that all art and music, and technology is not a new creation out of nothing, but merely a rearrangement of things that God created. 

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Crosses that Give More than They Take---17th Sunday after Trinity

9/30/2012

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Proverbs 25:6-14
Ephesians 4:1-6
Luke 14:1-11

In the name of the Father and of the +Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.  
Who is it that really gets your goat? Who really gets up in your grill?  So that just their presence, their manner, get’s inside your head, or up in your kitchen, and sets your teeth on edge? 

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Shame, Shame Go Away - 17th Sunday after Trinity

10/19/2011

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Proverbs 25:6-14
Ephesians 4:1-6
Luke 14:1-11
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen. 
“I have never been so embarrassed, so ashamed.” Whether it was your own mistake, your own gaff, or what someone else did to you, you’ve all felt that embarrassment, that shame.  It makes you never want to go back there.  In truth, if the shame is great enough the only way to be able to go back is to have the shame removed from you.  Of course, these things that shame us tend to eventually blow over.  But the one who was shamed continues to live with it.  While others may forget, they do not.  For they have been sullied by it, even if original cause of their shame was their own fault, they have been effected and shamed by their mistreatment at the hands of the community they were a part of.  For many that causes bitterness to take root in them. Resentment.  And they become reluctant to show their face in public.  They become reclusive, cut off from everyone.  For that’s what shame is.  It is the effect of sin on the communities you are a part of.  And no matter whose fault it is, the shame effects your standing in that community.   

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