RoboPreacher

it's someplace that you've been A sermon on Peter's denial and the aftermath : Peter had always been so sure that if the moment ever arose, he’d stand tall for Jesus. Good ol’ Pete just knew he had it in him. That he had the makings of a courageous disciple for Jesus.   Martin Luther referred to this kind of plot as a “ glory story.” An account of our lives wherein we star as the leading actor. A script in which we are featured as the main character who carries the weight of the entire drama.   We love these glory stories, too. Don’t we? In fact, they’re about all that’s playing in the theaters. Those stories where the protagonist pulls themselves up by their bootstraps, digs deep , and goes the distance too. And yes , in the course of the narrative, the hero can stumble. Just so long as they don’t outright fall , fail , or fold . But that’s not what happens in today’s Scripture. Is it? This is because this isn’t Hollywood. This is the Bible . And the Bible is for r...

'til i wanted to change The Holy Gospel according to St. John the 21st chapter ! The third time Jesus asks Peter if he loved him, it cut Peter to the heart… But not because Jesus asked three times if Peter loves him. Now, to understand why , you need to go back to when that day began .   When he and the other disciples all struggled together to haul the nets in.   As the ship swayed back and forth, and the men instinctively rocked their bodies forth and back to counterbalance the momentum that would overturn their ship… For Peter, it was one of those moments that’s almost surreal . He thinks how easily the boat could capsize. Just a little too far one way or the other, and everything would go overboard . Peter can’t help but think about how this because his old life, precariously balanced as it had been, was now overturned… We know what that’s like, don’t we? How it takes so much to keep our lives from flipping. How all it ta...