Seattle Mennonite Church Sermons

Hospitality & Chalking Doors

January 07, 2024 SMC preachers
Seattle Mennonite Church Sermons
Hospitality & Chalking Doors
Show Notes

Christine Sine teaches us about where Jesus was most likely born, how the Inn we traditionally invoke probably wasn't what we consider an Inn at all. She reminds us of the Mennonite tradition of radical hospitality and encourages us into Chalking our doors as a blessing for all who enter our homes and to consider who we might be excluding from those homes and blessings.

Sermon begins at minute marker 5:42

Matthew 2: 1-12

Resources

  • Blessing, instructions and image of door chalking 
  • Image by Alexander Grey on pexels
  • Hymn: Hymn 274 See Whose Glory Fills the Skies Text: adapt. from Charles Wesley (England), Music: George D. Elderkin (USA), 1890; arr. Evelyn Simpson-Curenton (USA), © 2000 GIA Publications, Inc. Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.