Sermons from St. John the Divine
Sep 20, 2026 · 18 min · 9 segments
What happens when we stop treating our relationship with God like a transaction? Through Jesus’ parable of the workers in the vineyard, this sermon explores the radical welcome and generosity of God’s…
Michael LloydGuest
But what's even worse is that he sends her away without any punishment or any penance.
He doesn't even tell her to go and sacrifice in the temple to offer a sin offering.
Then were there other prostitutes, arguably even worse than the woman caught in adultery, in that for them, sexual immorality was an established practice and a way of life.
And yet Jesus invites them into the kingdom with seemingly no preconditions or demands.
Now Zacchaeus did pay back four times over those he had defrauded, but that was his initiative.
We're told that all who saw it began to grumble at Jesus saying, for welcoming sinners and eating with them.
In fact, that was one of the most striking characteristics of the new Israel, that no one was excluded.
And the insiders, those who'd been insiders all along, those who'd been hired at the beginning of the day, could not stomach the fact that these thoroughly dodgy types were coming back in on completely equal terms, getting paid exactly the same amount.
But what's even worse is that he sends her away without any punishment or any penance.
He doesn't even tell her to go and sacrifice in the temple to offer a sin offering.
Then were there other prostitutes, arguably even worse than the woman caught in adultery, in that for them, sexual immorality was an established practice and a way of life.
And yet Jesus invites them into the kingdom with seemingly no preconditions or demands.
Now Zacchaeus did pay back four times over those he had defrauded, but that was his initiative.
We're told that all who saw it began to grumble at Jesus saying, for welcoming sinners and eating with them.
In fact, that was one of the most striking characteristics of the new Israel, that no one was excluded.
And the insiders, those who'd been insiders all along, those who'd been hired at the beginning of the day, could not stomach the fact that these thoroughly dodgy types were coming back in on completely equal terms, getting paid exactly the same amount.
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