Sermons from 2025 (Page 3)
Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Wicker Park Lutheran Church Rev. Jason S. Glombicki September 21, 2025 Friends, today’s parable is one of the strangest. Scholars have called it the most difficult, the most confusing, even the most frustrating of all Jesus’ parables. And it doesn’t help that our Bibles can’t even agree on what to call it. The New International Version calls it “The Parable of the Shrewd Manager.” The New Revised Standard calls it “The Dishonest Manager.” Another translation says, “Faithfulness with Money.” So,…
Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Wicker Park Lutheran Church Rev. Carla Thompson Powell September 14, 2025 Listen to Rev. Carla’ sermon here!
Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost
Wicker Park Lutheran Church Vicar Sarah Freyermuth August 31, 2025 In our Gospel lesson today, Jesus names a lot of binaries: between sitting at the place of honor and sitting at the lowest place, between those who are honored and those who are disgraced, between those who will be exalted and those who will be humbled. But to go beyond simply naming these binaries, I want us to think about how the experience of the wedding banquet and the Sabbath…