Thin Lines and Shrewd Grace

What do we do when the system is rigged—and we’re caught in it too? Guest preacher Pastor Samm Melton-Hill (Highlands Lutheran Denver and New Beginnings Worshiping Community at the Denver Women’s Prison) walks through Luke 16:1–13 and Amos 8:4–7 to show how Jesus pulls back the curtain on unjust economics and invites shrewd mercy: leveraging whatever power we have to reduce burdens, forgive debts, and practice the kingdom—even in messy, complicated realities.

If you’ve wrestled with complicity, privilege, or “clean-hands” perfectionism, this sermon names the thin line between “us” and “them” and calls us to bold, merciful action rooted in grace.