012520 – Matthew 4. 12-23 THIS REGION is ruled by HEROD Antipas, he is the CLIENT-KING of the ROMANS. He is their NINNY. NO ONE likes him very much…or the ROMANS for that matter. Yeah, so HE gets…the ROMANS get…and a lot of us BARELY SURVIVE. They TAX this, they tax that…EVERYBODY has their hands […]
012520B – Matthew 4 12-23 Get up…eat your breakfast (or not)…stop at Starbucks…head to work…work all day… return home…eat some supper…watch a little TV…go to bed… and then repeat those SAME STEPS tomorrow…and the day after that…and the day after that… Some of us may have a few MORE steps; some of us may have […]
012220B- Jn1. 29-42 First, we get HIT with a rather confusing statement or “a comment in passing.” It comes from the mouth of John the Baptizer. He’s that WILD GUY out there in the desert, EATING all kinds of strange things and WEARING a crazy-funky- animal-skin-tunic. When the Baptizer sees Jesus, he […]
012220 – Jn.1.29-42 Tonight I want to “take a crack” at a rather UNKNOWN DISCIPLE. ONE I have always FELT “sorry” FOR… The first thing that can be said is that Andrew was Simon Peter’s YOUNGER BROTHER. It is not EASY – being a younger brother. So I think of Andrew constantly growing up in […]
011820-B Jn. 1. 29-42 IT’s me, JOHN THE BAPTIZER. The son of Zechariah and Elizabeth—originally from the Judea Hill Country… You can find me most days, along the Jordan’s BANKS. Or, in the area of the DEAD SEA… That’s MY TURF. YOU won’t believe WHAT just happened to me. “THIS is ridiculous, I tell you!” […]
011820-A Jn. 1 29-42 There is SO MUCH to consider. Business is NOT EASY TODAY. There is SO much to be CONSIDERED. It is actually QUITE COMPLICATED. Obviously you start with the “BUSINESS PLAN or MODEL.” A GOOD “business plan” is A MUST. “A business plan” is that FORMAL WRITTEN DOCUMENT containing your business GOALS, […]
011820 – Jn. 1.29-42 Dogs and cats and rabbits (Oh MY!) I want to talk with you about “the Lamb of God.” It is still an animal, right…NO! Wait a minute…the “Lamb of God” IS NOT an animal at all. It is a PERSON. A human being…MORE than a human being…a man who walked upon […]
011520 – Matthew 3. 13-17 Transitions! Tonight we are going to spend “a little bit of time” talking about TRANSITIONS. Everybody HAS them. Everybody goes THROUGH them. Some transitions are SMOOTH and EASY, others, not so much. Some of us FIGHT any and all CHANGE. George Bernard Shaw said, “PROGRESS is IMPOSSIBLE without CHANGE, and […]
011320 – Jesus identifies with us! (Matthew 3. 13-17) The Baptism of Our Lord Franciscan Villa South Milwaukee, WI Let’s talk about the Baptism of Our Lord, just for “a little bit.” “When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too.” “And as he was praying, the heaven was […]
011120 – Matthew 3. 13-17 “Don’t mess with my sacrament!” Jesus lived an ANONYMOUS LIFE pretty much in complete OBSCURITY for thirty years. (Of course, he would have been KNOWN to family and his friends and fellow villagers of NAZARETH during that time.) As you know, we KNOW NOTHING of what Jesus did from the […]