“A Sermon for Trinity Sunday” by Teresa Ramsey
May 31, 2015
Trinity Sunday
Greetings to each of you this Trinity Sunday.
I offered to speak today on a subject that is not directly related to today’s lectionary readings.
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Matthew 5:23-24l
So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift
Luke 6:42
How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
The servant fell on his knees before him. “Be patient with me,” he begged, “and I will pay back everything.” The servant’s master had pity on him, cancelled the debt and let him go.
His fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him, “be patient with me, and I will pay you back.”
In anger his master turned him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all that is owed.
“This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother from your heart.”
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[1] Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, 2001, Pages 66-67.