Sermon - 6-19-21

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Luke 8:26-39; Pride Sunday; Pentecost 2; June 19, 2022 Rich Weingartner Grace to you and peace from God our parent, Jesus our Savior, and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Happy Pride everyone. Happy Father’s Day to all those who are father figures in people’s lives. And Happy Juneteenth Day. There is a lot going on today, which is great because it reflects the wide diversity of God’s creation - all of which deserves to be celebrated. As an RIC congregation we have committed ourselves to ensure God’s message of radical and unlimited love is shared and proclaimed to all. We committed to make ourselves better through learning, confession, and growth. In fact, it was 5 years ago yesterday that we at Faith celebrated our new RIC identity with our Diversity Sunday service. So Happy 5th Anniversary! We hope that today’s service and today’s message helps us more fully live into our promise as an RIC congregation. Parts of today’s service were specifically chosen because of our focus on celebrating Pride and to work to ensure the language we use is inclusive and reflective of all of God’s creation. Now, let’s take a look at today’s Old Testament reading from Isaiah. It starts out with God telling us that God is waiting for us to turn to them. No matter how much the people (and that includes us) ignore God and reject God and think they are too good for God, God is continuing to wait for the people to turn to God. All this waiting, and seeing God’s people reject God, understandably causes God to want to “repay into their laps their iniquities and their ancestors’ iniquities together.” However, God’s grace is there and God doesn’t repay us what is due to us, as there is still a blessing in us. God finds the blessing in us, no matter how small the blessing is and no matter the sins we have committed. God is always there for us and knows the good in us outweighs any sins and faults we have. This passage also ties into the Gospel w

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