02232022 – Luke 6. 27-38 Jesus is teaching. He taught a lot. He was good at it, and RESPECTED for it. It brought him HONOR and FAME among his followers. “Rabbouni,” people called him. The expression means “my beloved teacher.” Not just a teacher (a rabbi) but “a beloved teacher” – rabbouni. But this teaching […]

02192022 – Luke 6. 27-38 REVENGE I tell you IS SWEET. If someone strikes you on the cheek, take ‘em out. If someone rips off your coat or Jordans’ steal someone elses…just make sure they are the right size… If someone asks, look at them, like you’ve got to be kidding…what are you CRAZY? And […]

02162022 – Luke 6. 17-26 The world was pretty clear cut, either you were “Jewish” or you were “Gentile.” That was it. That’s all there was. The world was OBVIOUSLY mostly gentile, non-believers, foreigners, non-Jews, gentile dogs. “Jews” were but a small little tiny teeny miniscule minority, but an important one, because they were THE […]

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 […]