Imagine a four year old dressed as Abraham Lincoln standing three deep in the crowd, trying to view the Halloween parade passing by. In order to get a better view, this mini Abraham Lincoln’s father picked him up and put him on his shoulders so he could see. Unlike this child, in Luke 19:1-10, nobody was going to pick up Zacchaeus so he could see Jesus. Father Michael Renninger, Pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Richmond, Virginia, points out that Zacchaeus must find his own way to see Jesus. He must get out of the crowd in order to see. Renninger asks, “What crowds are you stuck in?” Listen as Renninger explores the importance of rising above the crowds to see Jesus.
On Easter Sunday we celebrate the good news of Jesus’ resurrection, but that’s not all. In 1 Corinthians 15 the Apostle Paul reminds us that we, too, will be raised from the dead. “How can...
“When I was a kid, we used to play a game on the school playground called ‘King of the Hill.’…Somebody would climb up on a mound of dirt at one corner of the playground and...
“It amuses me to see that the word ‘busybodies’ shows up in the Bible at all! It’s such a funny word…makes you wonder what sort of trouble a first century busybody would create,” says Carla...
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