Colourful Dreamer

You can listen to this sermon here   Gate Pa – Year B 3rd Sunday in Lent, 2024 Readings: Psalm                          Psalm 19 First Reading :             Exodus 20:1-17  Second Reading :        1 Cor 1:18-25 Gospel:                        John 2:13-22        What I want to say: Last week we talked about “carrying our cross with some examples of “martyrs”. Then read about MLK Jr, and some of his experiences with his father – living the truth that he was created a man in the image of God. Carrying our cross can be as simple as this. In light of that explore Exodus 20 – 10 Words – not as something to be done to ear...

This Lent we continue reflecting on whose are we using or four words, who are we as people marked by those four words, and what is ours to do in light of all that. This week we are given the Decalogue - the 10 words or 10 commandments from Exodus - We too easily read these as legalistic or moralistic which need to be obeyed to earn something. Howard Wallace says they “were given so that people may live fully together and before God. They were not given so that people may be worthy to come into God’s presence. On the contrary … they are given after God liberated his people from Egypt and led them in the wilderness. Law or torah in the Old Testament, is always a way to live in the presence of the gracious God who first comes to us in our despair and need. They are also a reminder that living in the presence of this God brings responsibility toward God and toward all God’s creation.” 1 The 10 words are the way God shape the people of God to live out God’s graciousness and generosity fo...