my first blog

With this post I enter the world of blogging with a certain trepidation. My hope is not to occupy anyone's time with my "wisdom" but to somehow facilitate our interaction over Scriputre and issues that relate to our shared life as a faith community. I'll try to let you in on some of my wonderings as I prepare to preach and some of my post-sermon realizations. I'll also try to suggest ways we might interact with each other in Community Groups if discussion would be valuable on a topic.

Last Sunday I made reference to a classic painting I had read about but didn't find time to search it out. It turns out the painting is by Rafael. I have pasted a copy of it here for us. Doesn't look like much of a mountain but the tension of Jesus in his glory and the less than glorious real life situation of a father finding no help for his son from the disciples is portrayed. Let me know what your observations are.

 

This Sunday we will try to identify the challenges of being identified by the characteristics of greatness in the Kingdom. Read Luke 9:46-50. Where might the discussion among the 12 have come from? What parallel stories in the other gospels shed light on this discussion?