This sermon challenges the assumption that the violent king in Jesus’ parable represents God, contrasting worldly power that humiliates and excludes with the kingdom Jesus embodies. Drawing on Isaiah’s vision of a future without death or tears, Rev. Justin Morgan proclaims that violence, the powerful, and death do not get the last word—Jesus does.
The good news for those at the mercy of power. A sermon for the 14th Sunday of Ordinary Time on Matthew 22:1–14 by Rev. Justin Morgan.