This week, Pastor Jake zeroes in on Luke 4:14-30. In this passage, we see Jesus go back to His hometown of Nazareth. And the people of Nazareth respond first by marveling at His teaching, but then it takes a turn for the worse and escalates quickly. In the end, the people of Nazareth, who had known Jesus His whole life, gather a lynch mob together to throw Jesus off of a cliff. You thought you had hometown issues! So what made them so angry? It wasn’t what Jesus said about Himself…that made them marvel. It was what He said about them — the condition of their hearts. Proximity to Jesus and pride had gotten in the way of them being able to accept the gospel. They didn’t think that they were the poor, blind, broken captives that Jesus said He had come to proclaim the good news to. They lacked desperation. May we be desperate for Christ and receive Him better than the people of His hometown!