Sometimes the Gospel stings! I read somewhere the definition of a Prophet is to āCOMFORT THE AFFLICTED AND AFFLICT THE COMFORTED.ā Jeremiah didnāt want the job. Who would? Jesus presents us today with the sting of the Gospel. The only ones who can claim…
“Hometown Boy Makes Good.ā I imagine the headlines if 1st century Palestine had a newspaper. When Jesus stood at the reader’s lectern in his home synagogue in Nazareth, he chose a very specific passage from the scroll of the prophet Isaiah to describe his…
āDo whatever he tells youā (John 2:4) Iāve noticed a āmagicā in weddings over the years. It takes ordinary people after the rehearsal dinner and transforms them for just a moment into kings and queens…royalty! And the agent of this transformation—the Mother of the…