Next Sunday I get to do one of my rare preaching gigs. The first for a long time and for perhaps the first time ever at St Andrews I get to choose the topic. So I thought that all this reading of Lives of Jesus has to be good for something and I'm planning a talk on the story in Luke 4:14-30. Jesus preaches for the first (and possibly only) time in the synagogue at Nazareth. So I thought I'd try out my thoughts here and see if they make sense. This is Part 1 - Part 2 is here . First, here's the passage. Then Jesus, filled with the power of the Spirit, returned to Galilee, and a report about him spread through all the surrounding country. He began to teach in their synagogues and was praised by everyone. When he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, he went to the synagogue on the sabbath day, as was his custom. He stood up to read,and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written:
'Contemplating the teeming life of the shore, we have an uneasy sense of the communication of some universal truth that lies just beyond our grasp.' - Rachel Carson