The 14th Sunday After Pentecost: Angry Like Jesus

The 14th Sunday After Pentecost: Angry Like Jesus

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Published on Wednesday, September 6, 2023 1:52 PM

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The 14th Sunday After Pentecost: Angry Like Jesus

Micah Kurtz
Text: Exodus 3:1-15 & Matthew 16:21-28

St. Columba's Episcopal Church, Kent, WA · The 14th Sunday After Pentecost: Angry Like Jesus

"Maybe even my anger can be a reflection of God’s image, as all of us are created in God’s image.

This is a challenge. It means that being human, I will use all my feelings, sometimes well, and other times less well. 

In our texts today, God’s anger shows up when God’s chosen leaders get in the way of God’s purposes. 

God acts with anger in these texts not to reject or condemn, but to redirect and guide these chosen leaders, to orient them to God’s saving work in the world.

God upsets their expectations to tell them there is more, bigger, and better in God’s plan and purposes.

It’s less that these are sinners in the hands of an angry God. Rather, they are barriers in the way of a saving God."

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