Isaiah 65:17-25 | 2 Thessalonians 3:6-13 | Luke 21:5-19

Jeremy Richards

So, I preached my first real sermon here two weeks ago, not counting my candidating sermon. And to be honest, I felt like it was a bit heavy. There weren’t any fun stories, or jokes really (and Stacey told everyone last week how I made Leviticus fun). So my plan for this week was to have a little more fun with the sermon, to maybe take my foot off the gas pedal. It’s easy for young pastors straight out of seminary to want to go a little too hard a little too fast – we tend to think we know more than we do.

Habakkuk 1:1-4, 2:1-4 | Luke 19:1-10

Jeremy Richards

Does anyone else feel like Habakkuk?

In the midst of an election year that seems to be even more divisive and hostile than regular,

with the constant news of yet another unarmed black man shot and killed in the street,

with reports of mass death in the middle East – 100 children recently killed in Aleppo,

[with the ever-present threat of terrorism around every corner,

with sexism that continues to be a daily reality for those of us who are women]

…and the list of injustices goes on and on…

It’s not hard to relate to Habakkuk’s words,