Jesus' Prejudice - Still Doesn't Make It Right
Due to our Vacation Bible School activities, I was not able to write a St. B’s News article last week about the troubling events that have been occurring in Ferguson, MO since August 9 th , and while we had a good group of parishioners at the 8:30 service, many of you did not hear my sermon in response to the events of the week. I do invite you to listen to that sermon, which is posted on our website – www.stbarnabas-sbnj.org . The Gospel lesson that it refers to is Matthew 15:21-28: Jesus left Gennesaret and went away to the district of Tyre and Sidon. Just then a Canaanite woman from that region came out and started shouting, "Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is tormented by a demon." But he did not answer her at all. And his disciples came and urged him, saying, "Send her away, for she keeps shouting after us." He answered, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." But she came and knelt before him, saying, "