Chosen and Adopted
Sep 28, 2025 • The Rev. Billy Cerveny
Who we are is always determined by whose we are. Reading the parable of the rich man and Lazarus as a mirror rather than a moral roadmap, the sermon contrasts a man defined by possessions with a beggar whose very name means God has helped. Through Galatians 4 it presents adoption as God's family, illustrated by a ninth-grade memory of being picked by a Young Life leader named Jim and later standing with him at the end of his life.