Sermons from June 2023
Challenges
3 Pentecost, Proper 6 – June 18, 2023 Matthew 9:35-10:23 There is a LOT in our gospel reading this morning! Do you remember the Peanuts cartoons? And Lucy. Lucy, the psychiatrist of Peanuts fame, who sits waiting in her booth. Frieda comes seeking help. “My problem is that I’m afraid of kindergarten. I don’t even know why! I try to reason it out, but I can’t … I’m just afraid … I think about it all the time ……
Untold Stories
2 Pentecost, Proper 5 – June 11, 2023 Matthew 9:9-13, 18-26 Cheat. Collaborator. Greedy. Shameful. That’s how people saw Matthew as he took in money dishonestly, unjustly, there in his little booth. Tax collection appeared on the lists of despised occupations that no practicing Jew should follow. People like Matthew were regarded as lost souls. But one day grace knocked on the door. Grace in the form of a person, Jesus. Jesus doesn’t ignore or condemn him, or otherwise…
The Trinity
Trinity Sunday – June 4, 2023 Matthew 28:16-20 and Genesis 1:1-2:4a Today we celebrate Trinity Sunday on our church calendar. Trinity Sunday invites us to celebrate an idea. A theological abstraction that’s beyond our understanding. The one in three and three in one. And you may ask, “Why should I care about the concept of the Trinity?” Well, let’s explore the concept a bit. It tells us that God is communal; that God is relationship. When God the Son…