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it's just another damn of the damns not given  A sermon on the parable of the irrepressible wedding banquet : This is one of those parables that make us blush. Isn’t it? If last week’s   parable hit too close to home, this one strikes too far afield. As far as the likes of us are concerned, this parable has a number of strikes against it.   First, there’s the fact this parable compares the kingdom of heaven to a king who’s all too willing to raze a city and even toss out a poor guest just for wearing the wrong duds! But that’s not the real problem we have with this parable. Is it? No, the real problem with this parable is that it dares to depict the kingdom of heaven as infringing upon our own present one! If the kingdom of heaven has any place in our daily affairs, it’s mainly in the background . The kingdom of heaven is something that’s distant . Distant in both time and space.   As Jesus would tell it, though, the kingdom of heaven is not so far off. W...

he's more like a pipe bomb ready blow A Sermon on  the parable of  the Wedding Banquet: Ma tthew 22:1 - 14 It’s days like these that we learn all over again, how Jesus is for the broken … How often do we get on with our lives and start thinking Jesus is just there to give us a little nudge to help keep our lives on track ? But on days like these, we learn all over again, how Jesus is for those whose lives have gone off the rails. Because on days like these, we see most clearly, how that’s us . Don’t we? On days like these, we come here, desperate for a God who’ll meet us in the thick of it. Because on days like these, that’s where we are, isn’t it? In the thick of it… Too often the way Jesus, and Christianity in general, is depicted is as a little good advice to help you keep your life in order .   But on days like these, you go back over every Bible story you’ve ever heard, and realize in a way you hadn’t before, how Jesus did...