The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost - September 21, 2025 - Mrs. Ginger Wolfe, IONA Seminary Postulant, Homilist

SummaryMrs. Ginger Wolfe explores the parable from Luke about a manager facing termination who shrewdly forgives debts to secure his future relationships. She challenges the congregation to apply the same strategic thinking and resourcefulness that worldly people use for material gain to spiritual matters, using our time, talents, and treasure to build God's upside-down kingdom and prepare for eternity.A reading from the Gospel of Luke                                             Luke 16:1-13Jesus said to the disciples, "There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was squandering his property. So he summoned him and said to him, `What is this that I hear about you? Give me an accounting of your management, because you cannot be my manager any longer.' Then the manager said to himself, `What will I do, now that my master is taking the position away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. I have decided what to do so that, when I am dismissed as manager, people may welcome me into their homes.' So, summoning his master's debtors one by one, he asked the first, `How much do you owe my master?' He answered, `A hundred jugs of olive oil.' He said to him, `Take your bill, sit down quickly, and make it fifty.' Then he asked another, `And how much do you owe?' He replied, `A hundred containers of wheat.' He said to him, `Take your bill and make it eighty.' And his master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly; for the children of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light. And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of dishonest wealth so that when it is gone, they may welcome you into the eternal homes. Artwork: Parable of the Unjust Steward, by Marinus van Reymerswaele (c. 1490 – c. 1546)