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Surprising Medicine, Amazing Grace

Series: Sermons

Sarah Stewart
January 30, 2022

Jesus is the skilled physician of our souls, showing the mysterious power that works on us through stories. As the poet reminds us, “we are meaning-making, story-seeking people.” And these stories Jesus summons from the Hebrew Scriptures—the one about Elijah and the widow of Zarephath and the other, about Elisha and Naaman the Syrian—lift up truth neither the crowd, nor we, see in our human blindness.

Psychologist Peter Levine points to the problem: “Disconnection from our felt sense of belonging…leaves our rational minds to create fantasies based on disconnection rather than connection.” And what is sacred story if not God’s gracious medicine, healing our vision so that we can perceive love exhausting itself to redeem the human family? Providing for the vulnerable and impoverished in order to demonstrate how wholly interconnected and interdependent we are.

Like the hometown crowd in Nazareth, we often worry God’s grace will pass us by.

Other media in the series

Identity

Sermon by the Rev. Karen Evans for Sunday, May 15, 2022

Easter Sunday Sermon

Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Simon J. Mainwaring for Easter Sunday, April 17, 2022.

A New Commandment

Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Andrew K. Barnett for Maundy Thursday, April 14, 2022.

Holy Loitering

Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Simon J. Mainwaring for Ash Wednesday, March 2, 2022.

A Revolution of Power

Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Simon J. Mainwaring for Sunday, February 27, 2022.

A Deeper Happiness

Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Simon J. Mainwaring for February 13, 2022.

Love Never Fails

Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Andrew K. Barnett for the 11:15 a.m. service on Sunday, January...

By Another Road

Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Simon J. Mainwaring for Sunday, January 2, 2022.

A Bigger Story

Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Simon J. Mainwaring for Christmas Eve, December 24, 2021.

The In-Between Times

Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Andrew K. Barnett for Sunday, December 19, 2021.

The Bridge

Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Simon J. Mainwaring for Sunday, December 12, 2021.

Generation to Generation

Sermon by the Rev. Zachary C. Nyein on his last Sunday at All Saints', December 5, 2021.

We Are On Trial

Sermon by the Rev. Natosha Reid Rice for Sunday, November 21, 2021.

The Pilgrim House

Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Simon J. Mainwaring for Sunday, November 14, 2021.

Called to Be Saints

Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Simon J. Mainwaring for All Saints' Sunday, November 7, 2021.

Requiem

Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Andrew K. Barnett for the All Souls Requiem service on...

God is Calling

Sermon by the Rev. Natosha Reid Rice for Sunday, October 24, 2021.

We Are All Priests

Sermon by the Rev. Zachary C. Nyein for Sunday, October 17, 2021.

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