The Fifth Sunday after Trinity

The homily teaches that true faith and obedience belong together, with obedience serving as evidence of genuine faith. Using the calling of Peter in Luke 5, the preacher points out that Peter obeyed Jesus' command to let down his nets even though it seemed unreasonable after a fruitless night of fishing. His willingness to trust Christ's word and act upon it demonstrates how faith operates. The sermon connects Peter's example with James's teaching that faith without works is dead and with Hebrews 11, where figures such as Abraham demonstrate their faith by obeying God's commands even when they did not fully understand what God was doing. Good works, therefore, are not presented as a replacement for faith but as the fruit and evidence of a living faith. The homily concludes by encouraging Christians to trust God's word and demonstrate that trust through obedience, following the principle of “trust and obey.”