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Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16 2025
Proper 17C
Few English labels have traditionally carried more of a negative wallop than that of “do-gooder.” We tend to be critical of people we call “do-gooders,” perhaps largely because we assume they do good out of selfish motives. Yet Hebrews’ narrator ends this Sunday’s Epistolary Lesson with a summons to “not forget [epilanthanesthe*] to do good…
Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16
Proper 17C
“Just tell me what I have to do, Pastor!” I suspect that nearly all of us have heard variations on this theme. This Sunday’s Epistolary Lesson seems to offer help in answering such questions. That may, in fact, be a reason why proclaimers’ attention is often most quickly drawn to its ethical pronouncements. Hebrews 13…
Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16
Proper 17C
Though the lectionary epistle cuts out the middle verses of this section, the ones we are assigned today tell the church what to do in order to stay together through hardship. If you believe that the text of Hebrews is a sermon, then just minutes earlier we heard the preacher remind the congregation about their…
Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16
Proper 17C
No one knows exactly who the audience of Hebrews was. We tend to think of the earliest Christians as something of a rag-tag group made up mostly of people of modest means at best and perhaps populated primarily by poorer folks. Yet there are just enough warnings in the New Testament about not getting carried…
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