The final Stump the Preacher sermon for the summer of 2017 was on the topic of prayer. The requester (or “asker!”) specifically quoted Matthew 7:7 in the request, so that’s the text that Rev. Cari landed on for the sermon.

Between asking the congregation to consider their own “story of asking” and ability to ask for help, and wondering about how one might pray as Mother Teresa did, that God would “break my heart so wide that the whole world can fall in,” came a discussion of this text from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount.