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In this week's teaching, we reflect on two brief but powerful texts from Book of Deuteronomy and the Gospel of Matthew that center God’s care for the most vulnerable among us.

When the disciples try to manage the crowd by turning children away, Jesus responds with a surprising command: “Let the little children come to me.” What might children reveal about the Kingdom of God? And what might we need to unlearn—about status, scarcity, and importance—to receive the kingdom as Jesus describes it?

Drawing on the witness of Fred Rogers and the prophetic insight of James Baldwin, this sermon explores how Jesus reorients our moral center away from power and toward vulnerability. In the Kingdom of God, the measure of a community is not how it serves the powerful—but how faithfully it cares for those most at risk.

As we gather at the Communion table, we are reminded that the logic of scarcity does not define God’s kingdom. At Christ’s table there is enough grace, enough mercy, and enough room for all.