A Sermon preached by the Rev. Thomas Mousin on the Third Sunday After Pentecost, June 10, 2018
I Samuel 8:4-20; 11:14,15 Psalm 138 2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1 Mark 3:20-35
It was in June, only a few weeks after I had started my work as a pastor in a small Vermont town, when one of the matriarchs of the church and the village approached me. She explained that her extended family was having a large family reunion in August, and that the church would be full of family members on the weekend of the reunion. “And I hope,” she concluded, that you will preach a fine sermon on the subject of ‘family’.”