Sermon: Eat, Drink, and Be Merry
A Sermon written for the people of God at The Church at Highland Park, Austin, Texas August 3, 2025 Luke 12:13-21 Have you walked through a clothing store recently, specifically stores like H&M or Zara, or scrolled websites like Shein or Temu? These stores are filled with cute, trendy clothes that are irresistibly cheap in price. It’s hard NOT to throw it in your cart. A shirt for $9? Heck yah! How about 2? Shein has thousands of pieces to sort through. And when you come back next week, the inventory has completely changed and you have an exciting new selection of clothing to choose from. Up until the mid-twentieth century, brands created fashion collections for four seasons- fall, winter, spring and summer, planning way in advance to predict what consumers would want. Inventory would sit on shelves for weeks and when they were sold, they weren’t replenished with something new. We had to wait until the next season. Now we see the “fast fashion” indust...