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Sunday, March 8 - The Tools we Have

This sermon was preached on Sunday, March 8, 2020 at St. Andrew's, Wellesley for the Second Sunday in Lent. The readings for this text are:  Genesis 12:1-4a ,  Romans 4:1-5, 13-17 ,  John 3:1-17 , and  Psalm 121 . On one of my favorite podcasts this week, the Rev. Dr. Matthew Potts, an Episcopal priest and Harvard Divinity professor, reflected on a scene from a fantasy young adult novel. In the scene, a wizard attempts to put out his house fire with a magic wand that’s been snapped in two. Potts commented: “ this perfectly encapsulates...the lesson for what’s to come. The world is burning. All we have are imperfect tools. Get to it...The crisis you have is the crisis you have, the tools you have are the tools you have. The fact that you do not have the right tools for the job does not absolve you of the responsibility to get to work fighting the fire...We do not have easy access to the tools to fix the problems we face, but they are the tools we have and so we’d better get to w