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You know, we live in an age of intemperate speech. I won’t list any examples, because you know: from presidents to people in the post office queue, folk can be very rude. Maybe someone’s been rude to you and it still rankles; or maybe you’ve said something hurtful which you now regret. So you’d expect me to preach a sermon saying, let’s show we follow Jesus by not talking intemperately, let’s share the love of God by not being rude to others. But hold on - what’s happening here? - in today’s gospel reading Jesus is very rude to people. The Pharisees - who took offence; and a Canaanite woman - who took all Jesus' rudeness on the chin, persevered, and was praised for her great faith. When Jesus 'pushes it' with us, how do we react?
A talk for the Tenth Sunday after Trinity, 16 August 2020. Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
You know, we live in an age of intemperate speech. I won’t list any examples, because you know: from presidents to people in the post office queue, folk can be very rude. Maybe someone’s been rude to you and it still rankles; or maybe you’ve said something hurtful which you now regret. So you’d expect me to preach a sermon saying, let’s show we follow Jesus by not talking intemperately, let’s share the love of God by not being rude to others. But hold on - what’s happening here? - in today’s gospel reading Jesus is very rude to people. The Pharisees - who took offence; and a Canaanite woman - who took all Jesus' rudeness on the chin, persevered, and was praised for her great faith. When Jesus 'pushes it' with us, how do we react?
A talk for the Tenth Sunday after Trinity, 16 August 2020. Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.