16th Sunday After Pentecost 2025

Someone has said that we should treat money like a chainsaw with a warning label. Just as serious injury to life and limb can happen with the careless use of a chainsaw, so the allure of wealth can shipwreck a person’s Christian Faith and leave them destitute of their heavenly inheritance in the Kingdom of God. Temporal wealth is not the only false god we face, but Luther, for one, believed it to be one of the most popular idols. And our Lord Jesus certainly taught and warned as though it were a leading contender. The story He tells in the Gospel Reading this morning certainly stands as a stark and dire warning.