At Your Limit? | Donovan Drake Preaching | Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost | 08.16.26

At Your Limit? | Donovan Drake Preaching | Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost | 08.16.26

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She said, “Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters’ table.”

  • How do you know when you’re justified in believing something?
  • What do you make of Jesus changing his mind? When in scripture has God changed God’s mind?
  • What does this passage say about those who are in need?

Westminster Talking the Text Podcast for Sunday, August 16th, 2026 | Matthew 15:21-28 | with Guy D. Griffith, Ashley Higgins, Sarah Bird Kneff, and Stephanie Boaz

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Matthew 15:21-28

15:21Jesus left that place and went away to the district of Tyre and Sidon.

15:22Just then a Canaanite woman from that region came out and started shouting, "Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is tormented by a demon."

15:23But he did not answer her at all. And his disciples came and urged him, saying, "Send her away, for she keeps shouting after us."

15:24He answered, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."

15:25But she came and knelt before him, saying, "Lord, help me."

15:26He answered, "It is not fair to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs."

15:27She said, "Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters' table."

15:28Then Jesus answered her, "Woman, great is your faith! Let it be done for you as you wish." And her daughter was healed from that moment.