No one wants to run out of food and drink for their guests at a party, let alone a wedding! It’s always a bit challenging to estimate how much you’ll need for the guests you’ve invited. Now picture planning for 7 days! Yes, 7 days. That’s how long people celebrated with feasting, dancing, wine, and celebration at a wedding in Jesus’ time. Apparently, at this particular wedding in Cana in Galilee, either people were ...
No one wants to run out of food and drink for their guests at a party, let alone a wedding! It’s always a bit challenging to estimate how much you’ll need for the guests you’ve invited. Now picture planning for 7 days! Yes, 7 days. That’s how long people celebrated with feasting, dancing, wine, and celebration at a wedding in Jesus’ time. Apparently, at this particular wedding in Cana in Galilee, either people were ...
... was the moral of the story, and the story has now ended. But it has not! Now trust me, the religious officials had enough trouble with the first part of the story, that they must have been flabbergasted and indignant! After all, in their estimation, the father had been too lenient on this errant son! No real father would do such a thing! Grumble, grumble, grumble. In true Jesus’ fashion, he continues his story. In a sense, the religious group had just become “actors” in Jesus’ storyline. They “are ...
... computers are capable of doing lots more than we ask of them. In 1993, there were 600 “www” web sites. By 1997 there were over a million. By 2005 the number had grown to about 71 million. And while there is no way to know for sure, the best estimates for today run in the neighborhood of about 200 million. That’s an increase of more than 300,000% in less than thirty years. The first email message was sent in 1971, but it didn’t become popular until 1988 and today more than 600 million people use ...
... my closet, many of them don’t even spark joy, and I need more room anyway. It is relevant because Jesus says we need to get rid of our stuff. I will do this by the end of September ― boom ― timely. Is this what Jesus meant when he said to estimate the expenditure, and figure out what it would take? Did he mean to do a detailed faith pro forma? Did he mean to be able to measure, quantify, and count the cost of discipleship? I hope so, because I can do this. The other parts about hating my parents ...