Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost

The Rev. Phil Brochard The sermon reflects on Jesus’s teaching about humility and hospitality at the banquet table. Using both a local community dinner and modern debates on immigration as illustrations, it critiques zero-sum thinking and exclusionary attitudes. The preacher emphasizes that seats at God’s table are given by invitation, not entitlement, and urges the congregation to notice who is missing from their own tables. The gospel calls for radical hospitality, ensuring that the vulnerable and marginalized are included, for the feast is incomplete until all are welcomed.