Sermon for Sunday, 1st August 2010 (Ninth Sunday after Trinity/Proper 13)
Jul 30th, 2010 | By Ian Poulton | Category: Sermons“I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.” Luke 12:19
Wouldn’t the arrogance of the rich man Jesus describes have fitted perfectly in the Celtic Tiger years? Wouldn’t he have made a perfect companion for the head of Anglo-Irish Bank who declared, “we worked the scene and maximised the moment, the world watched in astonishment”. ‘You fool!’, says God to the rich man; ’you fools’ he would say to those in our own time, “This…