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In Tents

Leviticus 23:39-43;    Matthew 21:33-46  When I was a boy, I remember the expression “a month of Sundays” to describe an unreasonably long time. I really never expected anything to take that long, yet here we are. This is the first in-person service that we have held since March 15, 2020. That was 28 Sundays ago. It’s actually true that I have not seen some of you in a month of Sundays, and some of you I still haven’t seen – at least not in person! I never thought I would see such a day, and I certainly never thought that I would say that it is good and right for things to be this way. Clearly, none of this has been what any of us want. Clearly, everything we have done as a church has been a faithful attempt to demonstrate our dependence on God’s grace. So here we are, under tents, in camp chairs, and looking more like a tailgating party than a worship service. Of course, we can argue about the good theology of a tailgate party done well, but that may be another story for...