The Jesus who turned over the tables of the money-changers in the temple is the same Jesus who healed and hugged lepers. His anger propels us to challenge injustices in ways that orient all of us toward loving and serving others, especially those we see as hardest to love.
What if David is a man after God’s own heart in that David’s heart, at least on one eventful day, was capable of change?
This is a sermon about learning from women who stood at the edge of before and after and who found God there. This is a sermon about history and about the future, because this is a sermon about the eve of something – who knows what?
Maybe faith, then, is less about believing a fact about God and more about entrusting God and the people around you with the truth about who you are, your joys, and your needs alike.