BOTH sons want the father’s things but not the father. One tries to get the things by being very, very bad and the other by being very, very good. And Jesus says they are BOTH aliented from each other, from the father, and from God. There are TWO lost sons in this story. Luke 15.11-32 [...]
The ‘religious’ group has a hard time with who Jesus chooses to have table fellowship with. The religious group asks, “Doesn’t Jesus realize that this riff raff is the REAL trouble in the world?” Jesus does not give a direct or compact answer. The purpose of the three parables is to challenge the Pharisees thinking! [...]
“The mountain was the way for God to prepare a small group of disciples for a sacred journey…to offer something to hold onto when they descended into the crushing reality of the world below.” (Anschutz) Such was the mount of transfiguration. Such is the intent of the Canadian Canoe Trip for Pastor’s. Matthew 17.1-9 Please [...]
