EPISODE · Feb 25, 2025 · 20 MIN
A Place On Earth: The Guest List
from Vessel Houston · host Mike Yager
To begin 2025, we are utilizing a series of Jesus’ parables as a lens through which we might better see and live into God’s Kingdom in the messy here and now; not a distant destination, but a present, parallel reality which we have a hand in cultivating. In this third entry, we look to the familiar story of a wounded stranger on the roadside and consider the responses of those who happen to be passing by. (sermon begins at 01:00)Scripture & QuotationsLuke 14:15-24Matthew 23:4-7“… this meal was supposed to be a sacred theater of Sabbath righteousness. Instead, it is really only a carnival of the prevailing culture’s prejudices, ambitions, and social barriers.” - Thomas G. Long, Proclaiming the Parables: Preaching and Teaching the Kingdom of God
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To begin 2025, we are looking to Jesus’ parables as a lens through which we might better see and live into God’s Kingdom in the messy here and now; not a distant destination, but a present, parallel reality which we have a hand in cultivating. We live amid a culture that glorifies and covets exclusivity, who’s in and who’s out. When all that the expected guests can muster are excuses for their absence, whom might the gracious host invite in their place? Spoiler alert, it’s everyone.
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