Stewardship is complicated, but not really. It is about recognizing God created everything and entrusts all that goodness in our care.
Each week, our pastor listens to the assigned gospel for the good news as it applies to the above definition of stewardship.
In about 175 words, he suggests where we might find stewardship in the gospel, in our community, and how we can put it into practice.
It is not really as boring as that sounds. Read one, or two; you might come away feeling the good news.
08/28/22 12th Sunday after Pentecost – Luke 14:1, 7-14 Stewardship Moment from Pastor William Stewardship in the Gospel At a dinner party, Jesus instructs his host to not invite friends, but to “invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind.” In God’s kingdom, there is room for everyone at the table, […]
08/21/22 11th Sunday after Pentecost – Luke 13:10-17 Stewardship Moment from Pastor William Stewardship in the Gospel Jesus works on the sabbath – the day of rest. But the work he is doing is freeing the oppressed. His followers were upset that Jesus broke the sabbath rules of rest, but Jesus was upset […]
08/14/22 10th Sunday after Pentecost – Luke 12:49-56 Stewardship Moment from Pastor William Stewardship in the Gospel Jesus calls the gathered crowd, hypocrites! They think that following Jesus is about he can make their life better. They fail to see that following Jesus means making other peoples’ lives better. It is about sharing […]
08/07/22 9th Sunday after Pentecost – Luke 12:32-40 Stewardship Moment from Pastor William Stewardship in the Gospel Jesus tells us not to worry about life’s necessitates because it is God’s good pleasure to provide. Then Jesus instructs us that trusting God is to lead to us selling our stuff and giving alms. The […]
07/31/22 8th Sunday after Pentecost – Luke 12:13-21 Stewardship Moment from Pastor William Stewardship in the Gospel In this parable of the rich man, Jesus teaches that placing one’s trust in the wrong things leads to death, not life. Jesus longs for us to trust God so that we experience a full and […]
07/24//22 7th Sunday after Pentecost – Luke 11:1-13 Stewardship Moment from Pastor William Stewardship in the Gospel Jesus teaches his disciples how and why to pray. We are to pray for help in making God’s kingdom to come. We are to pray for help in forgiving others’ offenses, just as we ask for […]
07/17//22 6th Sunday after Pentecost – Luke 10:38-42 Stewardship Moment from Pastor William Stewardship in the Gospel Jesus is experiencing the hospitality of Mary and Martha when sibling rivalry shows up as Martha tries to triangulate Jesus against her sister. Jesus lets Martha know that her worry and distraction is preventing her from […]
07/10/22 5th Sunday after Pentecost – Luke 10:25-37 Stewardship Moment from Pastor William Stewardship in the Gospel Jesus says the way to experience eternal life here and now is to love God with every fiber of your being (and money and time) and to treat everyone else as if they were important to […]
07/03//22 4th Sunday after Pentecost – Luke 10:1-11, 16-20 Stewardship Moment from Pastor William Stewardship in the Gospel Jesus sent 70 disciples to go ahead of him into the towns he intended to visit to declare the kingdom of God has come near. Jesus wanted people to have the opportunity to hear the […]
06/26//22 3rd Sunday after Pentecost – Luke 9:51-62 Stewardship Moment from Pastor William Stewardship in the Gospel Jesus is not welcomed into a village and the disciples’ response is a desire to call down fire from heaven to destroy that village. But, Jesus will have none of that – retaliation is not the […]
