Thanks to one of the commentators I read this week, the question that has been rolling around in my brain after reading our passage for today is this: What’s the difference between a crowd and a community? They are both words we use to describe collections of people, and we know they are not synonyms,…

Though the lectionary groups Jesus’ call to Matthew with a couple of healing stories, I stayed in the room with the tax collectors and sinners to see what I could find there. Here’s my sermon from this week. ___________________________ A few weeks back—I think it was the last time we had a full-blown lunch after…