Church of the Advent of Christ the King

Each of us, in one way or another, participates in systems that prize performance over mercy filling forms, meeting targets, curating images, translating our worth into metrics. And that is the human condition revealed in this text: we take God’s truth and intention for us and turn them into instruments of control: our truth, our standard, our measure for others.

Proper 23C: The Final Healing 2 Kings 5:1-3, 7-15c; 2 Timothy 2:8-15; Luke 17:11-19 The Rev. Paul D. Allick, Church of the Advent, October 12, 2025 Whenever I go to Walgreens to pick up my supply of healing agents, I look at the row after row of options. Sometimes I get curious and look at cures for ailments I don’t even have. People actually suffer from all of these things? It occurs to me, none of these products will ultimately heal us. They will mask symptoms of ongoing wo