Simply the Sermon for August 3, 2025: Eighth Sunday after Pentecost

Our Bible readings for Sunday August 3, 2025 are Ecclesiastes 1:2, 12-14; 2:18-23; Colossians 3:1-11; Luke 12:13-21. 

Today’s texts offer instruction and encouragement for all who are occasionally overwhelmed by the “unhappy business” of life. Jesus urges us to take care and be on guard against all kinds of greed. We who have died with Christ in holy baptism have also been raised with him and are encouraged to elevate our thinking, seeking the “things that are above.” To that end we seek the sustenance of the Lord’s supper and the encouragement of God’s word. We are gifted for the care of neighbor and community rather than for the satisfaction of the self. We are called to look beyond our own navel.

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