SERMON 12032022

Rev. Chad Peterson

Why does Pastor Chad feel old? He’s just barely over-the-hill. He’s healthy. He’s younger than most of us watching! It has to do with the disconnect that comes from a brain that developed in the stone age having access to an overload of information thanks to modern technology. We have instant access to news of every tragedy, natural disaster, and human shortcoming without the ability to take action like our fight-or-flight brain is built for. The result is perpetual anxiety and exhaustion. In the focus text we hear how Rahab, a woman without any power but a trust in the power of God, was able to take a small action that made a big difference. She offered hospitality to strangers, to spies in her homeland. This is just one of the biblical stories in which small acts of hospitality make a big impact when grounded in a trust of God’s promises. Pastor Chad suggests that by taking action in the form of hospitality to the stranger, those who are on the outside, the oppressed, those in need, we are trusting that God will do great things through our small actions. 

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