Grading Jesus’ first sermon (Luke 4:14-21)
As a homiletics professor, I would be inclined to give Jesus a passing grade, and not just because he is Jesus.
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Luke captures for us the inaugural sermon that Jesus preaches to the hometown crowd upon his return to Nazareth. As a homiletics professor, I would be inclined to give Jesus a passing grade, and not just because he is Jesus.
