Rev Bill

I have posted my sermon for today on my sermon blog. It’s based on Isaiah 50:4-9(a), Philippians 2:5-11, ans Matthew 21:1-11 — and entitled ‘Jesus Means We Can Think Differently”.

Here’s a portion:

Mohandes Gandhi once said:
“Freely accepted servanthood is the greatest force
the world has ever known.”
One of the hardest things for us to do is to give of ourselves — to sacrifice ourselves — to commit ourselves to God’s work and to give our all for it — to give of ourselves for the work of God in the world.
It is hard for us to accept service — sacrifice — and giving.
We would much rather have things our way than doing things God’s way. We make up excuses for not doing anything that requires us to give of ourselves — of our time — to go out of our way to take part in God’s work in the world. We don’t want to make sacrifices — whether it’s sacrificing our time — or giving of something we have — or sacrificing a part of ourselves for God and for others.
Too many times we think of ways others can serve us – or nit pick the ways others do not serve us – instead of thinking of ways we can serve others.
And the church suffers —
and the work of God in the world suffers —
and we suffer.
But — as followers of Christ — we can be different.
We can think different things.
You can be different.
You can think different things.
Jesus means we can think differently.
Jesus means we can think differently.

You can read the sermon here.

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