Pastor’s Notes

Sometimes the Gospel stings!  I read somewhere the definition of a Prophet is to ā€œCOMFORT THE AFFLICTED AND AFFLICT THE COMFORTED.ā€  Jeremiah didnā€™t want the job.  Who would?  Jesus presents us today with the sting of the Gospel.  The only ones who can claim…

Pastor’s Notes

“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…

Pastor’s Notes

ā€œDo whatever he tells youā€ (John 2:4)  Iā€™ve noticed a ā€œmagicā€ 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…