September 23, 2007 - Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
SERMON TITLE:
“God’s Economists”
OPENING PRAYER
New every morning is your
love, great God of light, and all day long you are working for good in the world. Stir up
in us desire to serve you, to live peacefully with our neighbors, and to devote each day
to your Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ the Lord. Amen.
SCRIPTURE:
Luke 16:1-9
“He also said to the disciples,
“There was a rich man who had a steward, and charges were brought to him that this
man was wasting his goods. And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this that I
hear about you? Turn in the account of your stewardship, for you can no longer be
steward.’ And the steward said to himself, ‘What shall I do, since my master is
taking the stewardship away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to
beg. I have decided what to do, so that people may receive me into their houses when I am
put out of the stewardship.’ So, summoning his master's debtors one by one, he said
to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ He said, ‘A hundred measures
of oil.’ And he said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write
fifty.’ Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ He said,
‘A hundred measures of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write
eighty.’ The master commended the dishonest steward for his shrewdness; for the sons
of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light.
And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when
it fails they may receive you into the eternal habitations. ” ”
HYMNS
From All That Dwell Below the Skies
O Love That Will Not Let Me Go
Take My Life
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