All Saints Sunday Yr B

In our world today, we can all too easily smell the “stench” of death. Death in the fast-paced lives that we live. Death in our obsession with “making it” no matter what, even if that means selling our very souls. Death in the prevalent values of consumerism, materialism, and individualism, which exploit people and the world’s resources without any limits. Death in our hunger and thirst for entertainment, which promotes violence as the means to solving life’s problems. The list could go on almost endlessly. Thank God that through Jesus and with the help of the communion of saints we are able to live a new, death-free life! We are called by Jesus to unbind the death-clothes of this world and set people free to live a life of love and abundance in Christ. Amen.

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1 Cited from: Pulpit Resource, Vol. 25, No. 4, Year B & C, October, November, December 1997 (Inver Grove Heights, MN: Logos Productions Inc., 1997), p. 21.

2 Cited from: Wm. Barclay, The Daily Bible Study: The Gospel of John, Volume 2 Chapters 8-21 (Burlington, ON: G.R. Welch Co. Ltd., 1975), pp. 96ff.