02092022 – This is a true story. You cannot make this stuff up. You may remember hearing about it. The story itself goes back in time to the year 1982. The same year as the World Series between the Brewers and the Cardinals. We lost! Talk about the crazy times in which we are living… […]
02082022 – This is a true story. You cannot make this stuff up. You may remember hearing about it. The story itself goes back in time to the year 1982. The same year as the World Series between the Brewers and the Cardinals. We lost! Talk about the crazy times in which we are living… […]
02022022 – Luke 4. 14-21 SOMEONE will remember the film, “MY FAIR LADY.” The year was 1964. The film starred Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle and Rex Harrison as Henry Higgins, and others – in supporting roles. It became the second highest-grossing film of 1964 and won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Director. It depicted a poor COCKNEY flower-seller named Eliza Doolittle who OVERHEARS an “arrogant […]
01302022 – Luke 4. 21-30 This is “about the day,” the inclusive guy, decided to be a little bit “exclusive.” I did “a little bit of research.” “A little bit of searching.” “A whole lot of playing” with the scriptures. And a lot of thinking and looking at the geography of the area…And this is […]
01292022 – Luke 4. 21-30 “Verbal terms of Engagement!” Different day. Different society. Different time. Sometimes, hard to fathom. Oh, how some things have changed, kind of. If you got TOO BIG for your britches or your robe…the community fought back. People would not let you get away with anything…nothing at all… Like it was their […]
01262022 – Luke 4. 14-21 The Nazareth Synagogue This is early Lukan material. You do realize that this is “one of the earliest”- “adult pictures” we get of the man we call Jesus. Jesus is just back from his Baptism, by John in the River Jordan…and from his forty-day-sojourn in the wilderness of […]
01222022 – Luke 4. 14-21 “All” – very simply means – “all.” Jesus came for “all.” (period) Yes, he came for the poor, Luke tells us that, tonight/this morning, in our gospel text. But he also came for those shut up in their gated communities, their pass-code protected-driveways, their multi-million dollar-McMansions and their tinted-windowed-Mercedes. He […]
01192022 – John 2. 1-11 When the gospels were being written the AUTHORS, the WRITERS, the EVANGELISTS (as they were called) were ALL very CALCULATED. Nothing was RANDOMLY DONE! EVERYTHING is SIGNIFICANT, suggestive, POINTED, and revealing. Placement was PURPOSEFUL and WITH great MEANING. HOW the ministry of Jesus BEGINS is “very telling.” Mark, the first […]
01162022 – John 2. 1-11 I felt bad. I tried a joke-slash-story in the sermon last night and no one even cracked a smile. No one! Notta! It couldn’t have been “a BAD story.” Or, they “WAY” that IT WAS TOLD. My TIMING wasn’t off…sooooooooooooooooooooooo I’m gonna chalk it up to Saturday night and the […]
01152022 – John 2. 1-11 It is important to note this is ONLY to be found in the gospel of John. It is IMPORTANT. It is IMPRESSIVE STUFF. It is, what John calls “his FIRST SIGN.” Which obviously means we should EXPECT or ANTICIPATE “other signs” yet to come…it is a HEADS UP…Get READY, stay […]