C'mon, Jesus! This stuff sounds impossible. David kind of gets it. Paul offers an explanation that might explain how it could be possible.

We have choices to make people!

Three men, each called to proclaim God's truth, each reluctant, each equipped by Grace to fulfill their unique mission. Such is the providence of God.

(Please pardon the pollen-tortured voice.)

A prophet in his own native place. Jesus challenges the status quo in the synagogue at Nazareth and is promptly escorted out of town. Paul writes of the one necessary thing for spreading the gospel.

Jesus comes home to read from Isaiah in the synagogue... it's on.

Paul gives us the Body of Christ imagery.

Mary won't tolerate a wedding feast without enough wine! What does that mean?

Isaiah's words prefigure this 500 years before the event. Luke shows us Jesus praying through the beginning of his public ministry.

Prepare! Make the path smooth and straight!

The first step in preparing to celebrate the birth of Jesus the Christ is to look at the return of the Risen Christ.

Foretold in the Hebrew Scriptures, realized in the Gospels, There really is good reason for that title. https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/011622.cfm