Hagar & Sarah
Sermon: Hear Our Cry
Readings: Genesis 21
Matthew 10: 29-35, 39
We have trouble with our readings today. Our trouble is that God does not seem to be acting with kindness. Our readings today do not fit comfortably with our ethical framework. We desire peace, we want harmony in our families.
... As Hagar and Ishmael cried out, God heard, God opened her eyes. God met them in their place of despair. So God meets us in in the hard places, the rock of weeping, in the places where we fear we are losing ourselves, there God finds us, God meets us, and we find our true lives in Christ.
A responsive reading of Genesis 21
(you need a man to be Abraham but he doesn't speak. The congregation play God!)
Readings: Genesis 21
Matthew 10: 29-35, 39
We have trouble with our readings today. Our trouble is that God does not seem to be acting with kindness. Our readings today do not fit comfortably with our ethical framework. We desire peace, we want harmony in our families.
... As Hagar and Ishmael cried out, God heard, God opened her eyes. God met them in their place of despair. So God meets us in in the hard places, the rock of weeping, in the places where we fear we are losing ourselves, there God finds us, God meets us, and we find our true lives in Christ.
A responsive reading of Genesis 21
(you need a man to be Abraham but he doesn't speak. The congregation play God!)