What starts as a fun fact about Genghis Khan ends up somewhere you probably didn't expect — inside a first-century synagogue, watching a religious leader choose his donkey's thirst over eighteen years of a woman's suffering. This sermon on Luke 13:10:-17 traces what happens to every tradition, every institution, every church when the form outlives the meaning: how the most liberating ideas harden over time into the very cages they were built to open. And on a morning when Hillside welcomes new members, it asks what it actually means to say yes to people who will show up with fresh eyes and inconvenient questions — and why that is not a threat, but the whole point.

Scripture References: Luke 13:10-17

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