“The Offense of Grace” – Matthew 20:1-16 (Year A, Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost)

2023-09-14T11:01:26-04:00September 18th, 2023|Lectionary Sermon Starters, Uncategorized|

Read the Lectionary Texts   I had a scary dream the other night. Dreamed I died and went to heaven. Well, that wasn’t the scary part. What was scary is what happened there at the pearly gates. St. Peter met me and said before I could enter the heavenly realm, I had to make a complete public disclosure of all my sins. Man! I’d always heard you had to do that, but I’ve been kind of hoping it was a misprint in the Bible. Well, St. Peter took me over to a place where there was a giant chalkboard. It [READ MORE]