Hospitality, Suffering, and the Impossible Possibility of God

Just because you might be rocking a green stole doesn’t mean you have to dial back the sermonic nerdiness. After all this week you get one of the most important texts in the entire Bible – Genesis 18:1-15. On top of Abraham’s transformation of hostility to hospitality with the three strangers you have Matthew 9:35-10:8 in which Jesus sends the disciples out to a less than hospitable Israel, Romans 5:1-8 where Paul starts theologizing about justification, and Psalm 116:1-2, 12-19.