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Podcast: Rotten Apple Seeds
Episode: Sermon for Proper 5, Year A, June 11, 2023
Description: Today's readings are the call of Abram to the Promised Land in Genesis and the call of Matthew in the Gospel of Matthew. I asked the congregation what they wanted me to preach on and they wanted to hear about the call of Matthew and the healing of the Woman with the hemorrhage and the raising of the Official's Daughter.
I made the observation that much of Jesus' ministry was to call into community those who are outside and rejected: the tax collector, as well as the sick and the dead. Healing is not...