Sermons from June 2023

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 ……

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…