Sermon Resources:1. “Hostility isn’t integral to the definition of discrimination; you can treat people differently without being hostile to anyone. But it is important to understand how discrimination can occur both without hostility and without any intent to discriminate.” -Tony Greenwald, "Favoritism–Not Hostility–Causes Most Discrimination"2. “This is God’s chosen lot. He had one opportunity only of living our life, and He chose to be born of parents too poor to present more than two doves at his presentation in the temple.” -F.B. Meyer3. Stories on NY Church: https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/02/carl-lentz-and-the-trouble-at-hillsong; https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/05/us/carl-lentz-hillsong-pastor.html; https://pagesix.com/2020/12/28/hillsong-church-operated-like-a-nightclub4. “How terribly, then, have the theologians misrepresented God…Nearly all of them represent him as a great King on a grand throne, thinking how grand he is, and making it the business of his being and the end of his universe to keep up his glory, wielding the bolts of a Jupiter against them that take his name in vain. But brothers, have you found our king? There he is, honoring and kissing little children and saying they are like God. There he is at table with the head of a fisherman lying on his bosom, and somewhat heavy at heart that even he, the beloved disciple, cannot yet understand him well. The simplest peasant who loves his children and his sheep is the true type of our God beside that monstrosity of a monarch.” -George Macdonald, "Christ In Creation"