Do you remember the old country western song, “Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places”? The song was about a down and out cowboy, looking for love in bars and shallow relationships. He truly was “Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places”. Today in our Gospel Lesson we have a text that might […]
Imagine Peter, James, and John as they descended Mount Tabor, with Jesus, after witnessing the Transfiguration. Their heads must have been reeling. And they couldn’t tell anyone! You know they must have huddled up privately to relive those moments, trying to understand what they had seen and heard. They cannot really have known then, but […]
The gospel reading for this day is Matthew 16: 13-20. You might want to have that handy to follow as we walk through this lesson together. Jesus and the apostles are once again found away from their northern Israel homeland, perhaps 25 miles north of the Galilee, in the region of Caesarea Philippi. The nearby […]