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  • "What About Those Galileans?" (Sermon for the Third Sunday in Lent, on Luke 13:1-9)

    03/06/2010 8:22:17 PM PST · by Charles Henrickson · 4 replies · 270+ views
    stmatthewbt.org ^ | March 7, 2010 | The Rev. Charles Henrickson
    “What About Those Galileans?” (Luke 13:1-9) Whenever there’s an unusual tragedy in the news--a violent death or a natural disaster, a murder, an earthquake--people begin to search for an explanation. They look for meaning. They’re perplexed. They don’t understand why this great tragedy occurred. They ask questions. Why? Why did this awful thing happen? Often they look for somebody to blame. They blame the perpetrator, if it was a crime. Sometimes they blame the victim, thinking that the person must have done something to deserve this. And sometimes they’ll blame God for allowing this evil to happen. Those are the...