Sermon for August 4, 2019 - "Unbelievable"

What qualifies as a good bet, an investment that has an acceptable rate of return for the risk involved? In this week's text from Romans, Paul describes how God made an unbelievable investment of love in us - taking an impossible risk for people who showed no qualities worthy of that extravagant expense. Rev. Tom highlights this extreme generosity through Jesus, telling two stories that touched his heart recently about where one finds true giving of oneself, and treating others with mercy and love. As C.S. Lewis wrote, "Fame in [heaven] and fame on Earth are two quite different things." And to be known and loved by God is the greatest type of fame there can be. As Rev. Tom describes, when God gives an outpouring of Spirit to us, God invests not in the "right" people, but in sinners. And it is in this grace that gives us our greatest hope and our greatest strength to be gracious to others. (Bible reading - Romans 5:1-11, NRSV) 

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