Visitors, Demons, and Rattlesnakes

In his Epiphany 4 sermon Glynn Cardy shares his encounter with Michael the Archangel last Sunday before the service to examine the grace those who are possessed and dispossessed offer the rest of us. "Violence and brokenness surround St Matthew’s. The dealers and the dealt to, rough sleepers and rough livers, the whacked and the whackos, the pissed and those who piss on the Church… They speak a truth that is difficult to hear. It’s a simple truth though: our beautiful, blessed and lovely society doesn’t work for the un-beautiful, un-blessed, and unloved. It is hard, cold, and lonely on the outside." Full text at http://www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=498&id=915.