SERMON SNAPSHOT
Dear Friends in Christ –
This Sunday Jesus speaks salvation. You say, "Of course.” But I say that in Luke’s gospel this Sunday Jesus speaks to yet another of the despised, the easy to ridicule, the easy to dismiss. Jesus not only speaks to a short guy in a tree, he calls him down from the limbs of the sycamore and invites himself to supper! Of course the proper folk scoff and grumble, but Jesus allows the fellow, a sinner in the crowd’s eyes to stand his ground and state his case – his integrity that no one present could have imagined…but Jesus.
We forget so quickly that when we look into the eyes of another, we look into the eyes of an eternity! So we’re told. Who may we be ridiculing, dismissing with contempt in our pettiness and myopia?
Jesus calls us to better – and God’s sacred word shows us the way.
See you in church. We’ll share communion… and salvation!
In Christ,
