Welcoming the Unwelcome

This sermon is based on the difficult text, Matthew 15:21-28, in which Jesus interacts in ways that are cold and harsh with a Canaanite woman before He heals her daughter. It is hard to be unwelcomed, yet sin makes us unwelcome in God's presence. It is only through Jesus' death and resurrection that the dogs beneath the table become the children who are welcomed at the table. And as children at…