SERMON AUGUST 24, 2014

ONE STORY

A sermon at Ketchikan Presbyterian Church by George R. Pasley

Exodus 1:8-2:10; Romans 12:1-8

 

There was a new king, and he was evil.

There was an oppressed minority, and their very existence was in jeopardy.

And there was one woman determined and desperate to save her son.

 

It’s a story that has all the hallmarks of disaster.

From its beginning, there is no way- no way at all- that the story should reach a happy conclusion.

 

But something happens, and though we might choose to use the world ‘miracle,” there is indeed NO miracle.

No spectacular intervention by God.

No rabbit emerges from the hat.

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