Christ Insight

Based on:  John 2:1-11

Last Monday when I came into the office I had an e-mail from someone asking me to perform their wedding. I also had a message on the answering machine from someone else asking about a different wedding, and then during the day I had a call from a third person asking about yet another wedding.  I thought, "is God trying to tell me something?" Is he giving me a sign that I should preach on the only verses recorded in scripture where our Lord is an invited guest at a wedding, the wedding at Cana?

And here I am, preaching on those very verses from John Chapter 2. But, I have to admit, I had already made the decision to use these verses for my sermon today, even before those people contacted me.  The interesting thing is that these verses are not primarily about a wedding.  Certainly, Jesus gives his blessing upon marriage and even on the wedding celebration by attending this wedding at Cana, but the main reason John records what Jesus does here is that Jesus, by turning water into wine, is giving a sign, a miraculous sign. 

Based On: John 2:13-22

It is time again to say thank you to all of those who helped my family move to Sleepy Eye.  It was nice to have people carry boxes to the place they needed to go.  Not just nice, it was fabulous.  Everything was approximately where it needed to be and you could still walk through the house without too much trouble.  We have moved several times and it isn't always this way.  I remember one move where most of the boxes ended up in the living room.  You could barely get through the living room and let's not even talk about trying to actually find anything in the living room.