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love and healing for the world with the resurrection of Christ, our Risen Lord.

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July 2, 2023 | 5th Sunday after Pentecost

Dr. Matthew Winkler

“CUPS OF WATER”

Today’s sermon focuses on our Gospel reading, Matthew 10:40-42.  In the very spirit of the reading itself, the Gospel section is less dramatic than the Psalmist’s cry of woe and certainly less so than the story of Abraham and Isaac at the altar.  Likewise, is it less grandly abstracted than our reading of Paul’s Epistle to the Romans, with talk of the Law of Grace and of being free from sin and enslaved to God; of the wages of sin and of eternity itself!  But – just as God was not present to Elijah in the wind or the earthquake, but in the whisper – we can take a close look at our smallest reading and take home a big message from it.  Swing by in person or virtually online, as you are able, and see what this big message is, because Jesus definitely made it with you specifically in mind.

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“What goes through your mind as you sit in the sanctuary and look around?

As I sit in my pew and look up at the cross with the wonderful light illuminating it, I am reminded of why I am at Westminster on this particular day. The cross reminds me that Christ died for me and, in a sense, I am to do the same in my daily life. The brightness of the cross illustrates for me the brightness of living my life in the way of Christ.”