SERMON SNAPSHOT: Sunday, November 9, 2025

Dear Friends in Jesus –

Our text this coming Sunday is from the 16th chapter of Luke. It is known as the Parable of the Dishonest Manager, but I think it should be more rightly called the parable of the Shrewd Steward.

This strange parable seems to highlight dishonesty, yet Jesus uses it to teach his disciples and us about cleverness for the Kingdom and total commitment to a singular goal – loving God by serving God’s beloved.

For fifty years Bob Dylan has been a major figure in popular music - a performer, musician, but most of all a songwriter. He was born into a Jewish family as Robert Alan Zimmerman, but in the late 1970s, Bob Dylan became a born-again Christian. In 1979, the album, Slow Train Coming (1979) was released. He won Best Male Vocalist of the Year with a single from the album, Gotta Serve Somebody. It starts out,

"You may be an ambassador to England or France,
You may like to gamble, you might like to dance,
You may be the heavyweight champion of the world,
You may be a socialite with a long string of pearls
But you're gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed
You're gonna have to serve somebody,
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you're gonna have to serve somebody."

In great anticipation,