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Sermon Series: Coin [March 3, 2024]


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Message by Pastor Doug, recorded March 3, 2024 at First Presbyterian Church of Bellingham. Scripture read by Laurie Bunnell.

Coins: The kingdom is a radical welcome to all, we are not to do anything that might inhibit someone, especially financially.

  • How do you think Jesus felt when he saw the widow put in her pennies?
  • What does he mean by lifting her up as an example?
  • What else might he have been commenting about?
  • In the Mark text, what bothered Jesus about the commerce in the temple?
  • What was he saying by his actions? What was he saying with his words?
  • What do we do that “inhibits” others from entering into worship?
  • What can we do to live out the radical welcome of the kingdom?
  • Luke 21:1-4

    1 He looked up and saw rich people putting their gifts into the treasury; 2 he also saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. 3 He said, ‘Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them; 4 for all of them have contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in all she had to live on.’

    John 2:13-22

    13 The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the money-changers seated at their tables. 15 Making a whip of cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, both the sheep and the cattle. He also poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. 16 He told those who were selling the doves, ‘Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father’s house a market-place!’ 17 His disciples remembered that it was written, ‘Zeal for your house will consume me.’ 18 The Jews then said to him, ‘What sign can you show us for doing this?’ 19 Jesus answered them, ‘Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.’ 20 The Jews then said, ‘This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and will you raise it up in three days?’ 21 But he was speaking of the temple of his body. 22 After he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this; and they believed the scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.

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