20 min
Prophetic + Pastor Hector Garfias-Toledo + March 5, 2023 Sermons @ TLCS
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Sermon for March 5, 2023 + 6:30 PM
Pastor Hector Garfias-Toledo
Trinity Lutheran Church & Schools
Second Sunday in Lent - The Temple: Risking Righteous Anger
SERMON OVERVIEW
A prophetic church and a prophetic disciple cannot remain indifferent to the human tendency to make God's reign a tool for control, power, and submission of others.
SUNDAY OVERVIEW
Jesus’ response to a visit to the Temple in the midst of the busy, noisy, Passover “tourist season” is utter frustration turned to anger. With so much at stake, “business-as-usual” seems obscene. This can be true for us today. The routine nature of our everyday lives sometimes seems ludicrous in the face of such suffering around the world. But taking a moment inside the scene where Jesus is overturning tables in this “house of prayer for all nations” can offer us a way to see what we actually might do to reassess our own actions and make our own corner of the world (our “temples”) a more welcoming place for all people.
Sermon for March 5, 2023 + 6:30 PM
Pastor Hector Garfias-Toledo
Trinity Lutheran Church & Schools
Second Sunday in Lent - The Temple: Risking Righteous Anger
SERMON OVERVIEW
A prophetic church and a prophetic disciple cannot remain indifferent to the human tendency to make God's reign a tool for control, power, and submission of others.
SUNDAY OVERVIEW
Jesus’ response to a visit to the Temple in the midst of the busy, noisy, Passover “tourist season” is utter frustration turned to anger. With so much at stake, “business-as-usual” seems obscene. This can be true for us today. The routine nature of our everyday lives sometimes seems ludicrous in the face of such suffering around the world. But taking a moment inside the scene where Jesus is overturning tables in this “house of prayer for all nations” can offer us a way to see what we actually might do to reassess our own actions and make our own corner of the world (our “temples”) a more welcoming place for all people.
20 min