Preached by Barbara Brown Zikmund, Ph.D
January 31, 2010
Lectionary Text:
Jeremiah 1:4-10
Luke 4:21-30
…I’ve always read and heard this story as a background for the phrase “we can’t go home again.” As we grow up and leave our families and the network of relationships that nurtured us, it is often difficult for the folks who knew us when we were young, when we were foolish, when we were immature, when we made stupid mistakes—to take us seriously as adults. Jesus was a local boy who was becoming a celebrity. People were following him. Today this might mean that people were standing in line to hear him speak, or his picture was on the cover of some magazine; or he had his own website. Maybe the paparrazii were following him around to get pictures…
