Psalm 45:10-17 Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30 I want to begin this morning with a question for all of us. What are you carrying? Not what did you bring with you in your hands. Not your keys, or your phone, or your bulletin, or whatever you had to remember on the way out the…

Genesis 21:8-21 Matthew 10:24-39 Beloved, there are some scriptures that do not let us stay comfortable. They do not come gently into the room. They do not pat us on the back and send us home feeling better about the way things already are. Some scriptures come like…

”Genesis 18:1-15 Matthew 9:35 through 10:8 Our scriptures today bring us to the door. In Genesis, Abraham is sitting at the entrance of the tent in the heat of the day when he looks up and sees three strangers. In Matthew, Jesus looks out at the crowds and sees people…

Here we have Jesus immediately following his baptism being led to the wilderness where he faces temptation after temptation by the devil. We are not told what all of the temptations are, nor are we told Jesus’ response to those temptations, but we can surmise based on…