Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany (Year B, RCL)

How do you know that God is great? You study the things God has done! You might even call it data-collecting concerning God's salvation.

True prophets have a different bottom line than false ones, but that doesn’t make them any easier to recognize.

In the days before every district superintendent carried a cell phone, driving the charge conference circuit was a great opportunity to listen to the radio. My favorite station was NPR. More than once I found myself totally enthralled by a broadcast story. Sometimes I would pull into my own driveway but be unable to get out of the car because I was a prisoner of a story. I sat on the edge of my seat, my hand ready to turn the car key, unable to move. Maybe it was the story about the little boy caught in a moral dilemma: he needed to tell his mother the truth about a neighborhood crime, but could not betray a confidence. What would he do?

It’s been said that the lessons of history are never clear, and when they are they’re usually wrong.