Simon fishes all night for nothing, a carpenter tells him where to put the nets, and the catch nearly sinks two boats. His first response is to ask Jesus to leave. Pastor Adam takes that seriously: discipleship exposes sin before it does anything else.

Dr. James Smith III preaches the angel’s announcement as the answer to why Jesus came. The shepherds are not told to feel better; they are told something has happened, in a named town, with a verifiable sign attached, and the joy follows the fact.

Two young readers open Youth Sunday with the hardest sentences in the Gospels. Harry Wilson watches the smiles turn to frowns, preaches it with his own mother and grandparents in the room, and argues Jesus is insisting on an order of loves, not the abolition of the lesser ones.

The son rehearses a speech asking to be hired as a servant, and never gets to finish it. Dr. James Smith III preaches the prodigal son on Father’s Day, on a father who was watching the road, and on an older brother who has to ask a servant what is happening in his own house.

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