09.15.19 - Grace for Ragamuffins - Luke 15:1-32

In this sermon we talk about grace. We begin with this moment when the scribes and the Pharisees grumble at Jesus for eating with tax collectors and sinners, so he tells them three parables. The irony of their grumbling is that they think they’re any different. God’s people have always relied on God’s grace because they have always grumbled, beginning with the exodus. King David (via the occasion for Psalm 51) is a model for how self-righteous is softened with prophetic truthfulness, which leads him to contrition. It leads Paul their, too. We end with Brennan Manning’s story and his gift of grace for all ragamuffins.