Imagine, if you will, this scene:

            A joint meeting of two groups — two groups who, in normal times, despise each other. But these days are anything but normal. So here they are in the same room with each other conspiring against the one man they now perceive as their common enemy. Their plan? To ask him a question so diabolical that no matter how he responds, he condemns himself politically. 

Is this the plot from the latest YA novel or a hit Broadway musical?

Was this a strategy from this week’s Town Hall meetings?

Is this simply an overblown way to describe Political Twitter?

Or, could it be a dramatic paraphrase of this week’s gospel text from Matthew 22? 

No matter who you are or what you do to live, thrive, and survive, we all face life’s big questions from time to time — even, or maybe especially, when we least expect them. 

What are those big questions?
How do we respond to them?
How might Jesus’ vexing examination of taxation help us here in late 2020? 

Pastor Dave will attempt to tackle these questions and more this Sunday, October 18th, in his sermon, “The Curious Case of The Question.”