Work for Justice, Release our Attachment and Trust Jesus to form Us into a People of Compassion.

Collect: Proper 23

Lord, we pray that your grace may always precede and follow us, that we may continually be given to good works; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen

Job 23:1-9, 16-17. . .  Job  wants God to hear his case in person.

Psalm 22:1-15 . . . The Cry of the Forsaken

Hebrews 4:12-16 . . . only through Jesus can the kingdom come — as our apostle and high priest, he builds us into “God’s house.”

Mark 10:17-31 . . . Jesus advises a wealthy man who seeks God to obey God’s commandments and to detach from his possessions and focus fully on God.

A Sermon by The Rev. Jason Micheli, Pastor of Annandale United Methodist Church in Annandale, Virginia.  The Ten Commandments in relationship to the gospel.