St. Patrick Presbyterian Church, Epc

You think you’d get a break when you’re reading the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus’ words on money and greed ‘plow a little too close to the corn,’ as my grandfather used to say. Then, before you even have time to recover, Jesus moves from money to relationships! How do the people of God, in our relationships with one another and with our neighbors, provide a healing place in a world that is absolutely toxic in our speech and manners to one another.The age of civility in our discourse and among people is long gone. The Internet, and especially social media, have made the world a toxic place. I find this so ironic. On the one hand, we are told by those around us in the culture that we are not to tell anyone they are wrong or to admonish anyone that a certain behavior is sin. In theory, this should make us all just one big lovey-dovey community—right? Wrong! Because on the other hand, the very people that tell us we may never judge or criticize a lifestyle, behavior, or sin, will in cyberspace say the most horrific