Luke 20 – Where the Wind…

Sermon for Sunday, November 9, 2025 || Proper 27C || Luke 20:27-38

Jesus’ words to the Sadducees in today’s Gospel are words that speak of the sublime mystery and majesty of God. I’m so excited that we got to hear this story today because Jesus’ words light my theological imagination on fire. We’re going to spend all of today’s sermon in my theological imagination as we envision as best we can our way into God’s point of view. None of us is really qualified to talk about God’s point of view, so you’ll have to take everything I say today with a grain of salt – or as a professor of mine used to say, “with salt mine.” In the next few minutes I might say something that is true, but if I do, it will have been by accident because what I’m really going to talk about is Adam’s point of view about God’s point of view. But maybe the Holy Spirit will help us glimpse the corner of the edge of the majesty of how God sees things.

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Sermon for Sunday, November 10, 2019 || Proper 27C || Luke 20:27-38

I’ve said it many times, and I’ll say it again. Jesus rarely, if ever, answers the questions people ask him in the Gospel. Instead, he answers the questions he wishes they had asked. Today’s Gospel lesson is a case in point.

Jesus does not answer the Sadducees question because their question is disingenuous. They ask him a question designed to expose what they think is the absurdity of the resurrection. However, since they don’t believe in the resurrection, they really have no standing to ask a question about it. They are simply trying to get Jesus to trip into a bad sound bite. They have focus-group-tested a stumper, and they deploy it to make Jesus look bad.

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