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Drammen Lutheran Church Mission Statement:
Called by God's grace and equipped by the Holy Spirit, we nurture and challenge each other to grow in proclaiming the good news of Christ Jesus through celebrating worship, studying God's word, and showing hospitality by serving our neighbors both here and around the world.
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Drammen Lutheran Church Fall Fest Sunday September 27th. 10am Worship and Praise music by Warren Petryk followed by chicken dinner, silent auction, bake sale, kids games.
September 27, 2026
Dear friends in Christ grace and peace to you. The message for this week comes from
Matthew 21:23-32.
If you hadn’t noticed we are in the midst of an election cycle. If you hadn’t noticed that – well you likely have your head buried in the sand because we are bombarded constantly of late by political ads. We get them daily in the mail. We get them every few minutes on the radio or TV. Most of these ads aren’t even close to the truth. But what they seek is to tell us what we want to hear.
As we read the parable Jesus poses about the two sons we need to set the scene. This event happened at the beginning of Holy Week. Jesus, just the day before had ridden into Jerusalem on the back of a stolen donkey to the adoring praise of the crowds, he had driven the moneychangers out of the temple in a rage. In other words, he had spent the weekend causing holy trouble and as you might imagine, those in power, the religious leaders were furious. And so they ask him, who does he think he is? And so they set out to catch him in trap with his own words. But Jesus instead poses his own trap. Jesus tells this parable about the two sons whose father asked them to go work in vineyards. One said he wouldn’t but later decided for some reason that he should do as his father asked and went to work. The other said he would go to work but didn’t. Jesus’ question: “Which of the two did as his father asked?” One son told his father what he wanted to hear and the other did what his father asked of him. So, which of the two did what their father wanted? If we look at our own faith journeys, which of the two sons would we be? Do we say what we think Jesus wants to hear or do we do what we know Jesus wants us to do? Jesus warns that those whom we despise, those whom we look down on will likely see the kingdom of heaven while we will not and the answer why is clear, verse 32.
This gospel text might make us squirm just a bit; but it is intended to I think. We are meant to be uncomfortable, to be confronted and to ask which son am I. Am I the one who talks the talk? Or am I the one who says the wrong thing but finally sees the light, repents and does what he is asked to do anyhow?
What Jesus was driving at I think is that the religious groups stop their empty words. Jesus reminds us of the same today. We need to speak the truth. We need to stop saying what others including ourselves want to hear in order to justify ourselves. Jesus reminds us in this text that when we come clean, when we acknowledge that we are wrong that we have sinned and are truly sorry of that; we will be forgiven and the possibility of eternity in heaven is real for us. The question put before us is this: which of the two sons are we? Do we talk the talk or do we walk the talk?
May the peace of God be with all of you as you contemplate the questions before us.
Michael Isaacson
