Sermon for August 20, 2023
Pastor Hector Garfias-Toledo

(DO) Justice

Pastor Hector invites everyone to take a more active role in living out God's justice in and for the world. We must jump into the never-ending stream of justice flowing from God.

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Lectionary 20, Year A 12th Sunday after Pentecost

In Isaiah we hear that God’s house shall be a house of prayer for all people and that God will gather the outcasts of Israel. The Canaanite woman in today’s gospel is a Gentile, an outsider, who is unflinching in her request that Jesus heal her daughter. As Jesus commends her bold faith, how might our church extend its mission to those on the margins of society? In our gathering around word and meal we receive strength to be signs of comfort, healing, and justice for those in need.