It is the nature of a creature—or toy, or movie franchise—to outgrow its context and move on.
Epiphany | Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany (Year C)
Jeremiah 1:4-10 (Psalm 71:1-6); 1 Corinthians 13:1-13; Luke 4:21-30
What’s up with Luke’s assertive Jesus?
The psalmist takes cover in God like a stranded hiker seeking refuge beneath an overturned tree.
As a homiletics professor, I would be inclined to give Jesus a passing grade, and not just because he is Jesus.
There’s a lot of urgency in that single word today.
How would Norman Rockwell have painted Jesus' homecoming to Nazareth?