Mount Calvary Sermons

TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST 2014 MATT 25:14-30   So, I’ve been cleaning out the cupboards in the kitchen.  I must confess that I don’t like cleaning the house.  It’s a rotten job.  But it’s got to get done.  So I’m cleaning out the cupboards, and in particular the spice cupboard.  Now, when they designed my kitchen in the late 1970s they put this small storage cupboard in the most inaccessible place they could think of.  They probably hired someone just to make things difficult – put this cupboard where no one can reach it, unless they stand on a chair and lean over three feet of countertop, just next to the hot stove.  So, because no one can reach it the spice cupboard hasn’t been cleaned out for years.  So, while I was feeling keen to do some housework I thought I’d tackle the spice cupboard, and at least throw out all the little jars that are past their sell-by date.  And I came across a little tub of