'Though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich' (Deuteronomy 15 & 2 Corinthians 8:9)

Sermon for Sunday, June 30th 2024 (Proper 8, Year B) Manuscript available HERE Supplementary notes available HERE The Good News of Christianity is that where we are all born spiritually poor and homeless, God in Jesus stepped into that, and opened the way back to him to be saved from that; to be made acceptable to God again by being given Jesus’ perfect heart, and to re-mold our own hearts more and more to be like his. In Jesus we are freed from needing to hold on to our material riches self-destructively at the expense of others, and freed to seek God’s Kingdom-will in how he wishes us to USE that in the love and service of him and others.