Sermon: “Generosity & Just Desserts”

Matthew 20:1-16
Rev. Justin McLaury

Quotes:

They are prepared for a God who strikes hard bargains but not for a God who gives as much for an hour’s work as for a day’s. They are prepared for a mustard-seed kingdom of God no bigger than the eye of a newt but not for the great banyan it becomes with birds in its branches singing Mozart. They are prepared for the potluck supper at First Presbyterian but not for the marriage supper of the lamb. —Frederick Buechner

O let the dead now hear Thy voice;
now bid Thy ransomed ones rejoice;
their beauty this, their glorious dress,
Jesus, Thy blood and righteousness. —Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf; trans. John Wesley

Whether our days trip along like the angels mounting on Jacob’s ladder to heaven or grind along like the wagons that Joseph sent for Jacob, they are in each case ordered by God’s mercy. —Charles Spurgeon