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The Unwanted Guest, by Tamsyn Muir Lections: The Twentieth Sunday After Pentecost ( Lectionary 28 ), AD 2026 A You may find the accompanying children's sermon here . Homily: Lord, we pray for the preacher, for you know his sins are great. Grace, mercy and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Matthew has lived through an apocalypse. He has witnessed the end of the world as he knew it. And so he preaches to the survivors a Gospel of vindication, the Good News of Jesus Christ enduring the worst that evil can throw at it. That’s what gives to his Gospel its edge. It is written for people who have been through hell. The Church has four canonical Gospel accounts, penned in the decades following Christ’s Resurrection. Scholars like to say that the Gospels were written for grandchildren; by which they mean that the first generation of believers had the living witness of the Apostles. And despite their many challenges, despite opposition both po...
