... so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” Pastor Gary Smith tells about a wonderful display of the kind of love in an NBA first round playoff game not too long ago. We ... children drew faces that looked like their own in terms of hair color, eye color and skin color. And, this, of course, makes sense. But Coles was reminded of another way of imagining the face of God: He thought back to his days working in Dorothy Day’s Catholic Worker soup ...
"With Jesus in your heart, you just can't hate anybody." That is our destination, but sometimes the journey is just as important as the destination. I want to take you on a journey through the text for today. As we continue to preach on the life of our Lord Jesus, we will basically arrive at the same destination: "With Jesus in your heart, you just can't hate anybody." This is a wonderful text, a dense text that is chock full. It's almost like a good hamburger with all that good stuff hanging over the ...
3. Praying for the People
Luke 4:14-30
Illustration
Gary L. Carver
Ruby Bridges was the six-year-old African-American girl who was the first person to integrate the schools in New Orleans. It's a lot to ask of one person let alone a six-year-old. So, everyday the federal marshals escorted her into the schoolhouse because both sides of the sidewalk would be lined with people who were screaming threats. Robert Coles, a noted Harvard psychiatrist, volunteered his time to work with young Ruby. Every day he would talk with her, trying to help her weather the crisis. On the ...
