Sermon

“What Welcome is Received”

Scriptures: Matthew 10:40-42 and Psalm 89:1-4,15-18 Some thoughts towards worship on Sunday, June 28, 2020: There is a lot of welcoming and receiving going on in Jesus’ words at the end of Matthew 10.  If I am not careful, I fall into a legal mindset and begin to ask, “What is Jesus asking us to…

“A Cross that Leads Us to Reclaim our Humanity”

Sermon Text:  Matthew 10: 24-39 Think About It:  One of the commentators I read this week highlighted the word “soul” (psyche in Greek) in v 28 of our text today.  Whereas Greek thought, heavily influenced by Platonic dualism, might see the “soul” as being able to separate from the “body”—this did not represent Jewish thought. …