Tag: Luke 4:22-30

"Shove me into shallow waters, before I get too deep." This was a popular song in the 1980s espousing the "virtue" of shallow living. "I don't want to get too deeply insightful about myself. I'd rather be shallow." I get it. Doing the work to truly know yourself is hard and scary! Because IF you…

Every wisdom literature of every ancient culture has a form of the wisdom "Know Yourself." The ancient Hellenic philosophers were all focused on developing that kind of self-knowledge to cultivate ways to live life well. But self-knowledge isn't very helpful if you don't have a reference point. What is a healthy person? Is it mere…

"Hey, I know that boy. I've known him my whole life. Who does he think he is?" I confess, it hurt a bit. You see, I was preaching one of my first "sermons" and some "friend" of the family who had, actually, known me and my parents since I was a baby, was a bit…

I love the scene in "A Few Good Men" when Jack Nicholson's character looks at the military lawyer questioning his leadership of his troops in Guantanamo. It's at a pivotal part of the drama. The commandant, Colonel Jessup, was a rough and tough Marine leader. He was a strong man, and he didn't have any…