A Sermon for the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A Exodus 16:2-15; Philippians 1:21-30; Matthew 20:1-16 Whenever most preachers sit down with the lectionary lessons of the coming Sunday, we read through them, and we often look for a theme that connects them all. In both the Old Testament and Gospel readings this morning, I found a common theme! I believe the theological term is: whining. We must admit – sometimes it feels good to whine. But when whining gets out of hand, how often did those of us of a certain age heard the ominous parental voice boom, “Don’t … Continue reading God’s Unreasonable Grace