Jesus and His Yuppies; War and Wrong and an Answer for That in a Coconut Shell; (About Painful Healing); Two Holocausts and How in Three Pictures We Can See How God Worked in Them; also How He Works With Us.

Isaiah 53, one of the poems of the Suffering Servant - a strange text to be read here in the fall of the year when it really belongs in Lent, does it not? Surely it does. Why is it here?

Those who worked out the lectionary, those stated lessons for each Lord's Day, did so with the Gospel lessons as the focal point and with the other two enhancing, supplementing, supporting, giving background.

The theme in that Gospel is set forth when James and John say to Jesus, "When you establish your kingdom, we want the two highest cabinet posts. We want to be your chief advisors. We want the places …