Mount Calvary Sermons

TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST 2016 LUKE 18:9-14 Dear God. Thank you that I'm not like him over there. Lord, you have been so good to me. You made me a reasonable, thoughtful person. Thank you that I'm not one of those unthinking Christians –those Fundamentalists with their simplistic faith and their pre-Modern way of reading the Bible. Like him. Look at him, Lord. Such judgmental opinions, such arrogance, such pride in his own goodness. That's the problem with his type of Christian, so full of themselves, so self-righteous. Like those pastors and priests with their petty rules and hateful dogma, who think that obeying the dead letter of religion is more important than people. Yes, Lord, thank you that I am not like him over there. I welcome outsiders, strangers, people who look and talk nothing like me. I'm not like him, that Christian, who makes alliances with politicians, giving up the purity of his faith in order to gain brief and meaningless power in this world. And thank you, Lord, that I'm not lik