Babette's Feast: Gospel Overflow as Response - Lutheran (Romans 12:9-21)

Imagine a small, windswept village in Denmark, where the air is thick with the chill of isolation and the weight of unspoken grudges. The villagers of Berlevaag have grown accustomed to a life marked by restraint and reserve, their hearts guarded like the tightly shut doors of their homes. In this stark landscape of duty and silence, a stranger arrives—Babette, a refugee from Paris, whose very presence brings a whiff of something foreign and delightful.…