Sermon: Grace Reigns (and Rains) by Rev. Will Burhans on 9/11/22

Sermon: Grace Reigns (and Rains)

Scripture:  Luke 15:1-10

Preacher: Rev. Will Burhans

Date: September 11, 2022

 

O Living Water, O My Redeemer (Oh God my Savior) (O My Great Shepherd)

If I ever needed you. I need you now. 

If I ever needed you. I need you now.

 

            And that is how we come to God… or rather how God comes to us, not in how we’re filled but in what we need, not in all we’ve found but in what we’ve lost and how we are lost. We say in prayer “if I ever needed you, I need you now” and that’s a prayer that lays us open for grace.  It’s a good place to begin here at the start of another fall, with this beautiful little 5-letter word - grace.  It is the Christian faith in a word, it all hinges upon it, the whole story, the arc of how we begin, how we are sustained and where we will land, so needless to say it’s a big, deep, rich, you might say inexhaustible notion, grace is, and so this morning I thought I’d offer a brief meditation on grace and I want to do so by asking 4 questions - 

what is it? 

How is it gained? 

What does it do for us? 

And how do we respond… to such a thing as grace?