First Congregational UCC - Platteville

In his commentary on Matthew, Daniel Harrington, lays out an argument that “all the nations” is best translated, in Matthew’s context, as “all the gentiles” and that “these brothers of mine” elsewhere in Matthew is a reference to Jesus followers. Such a translation would invite one to see the scene that Jesus lays out as a judgment of the nations (i.e.: pagans) in light of their treatment of the disciples of Jesus. Intrigued, I put the whole argument before Tracey (my beloved), complete with Greek New Testament and dictionary, to see what she would think. Her response? “I don’t like it.” So there you have it. By the grace of God, she’s a sheep too.

“Weeping and gnashing of teeth” is bible-speak for “retirement account.”

It’s the morning after an historic American election, but this strip that I drew back in 2002 feels more relevant than ever.

And talking about yourself with your mouth full? That’s a real no-no!

Sometimes Ted can be so silly. Everyone knows that the real answer is Ziggy Stardust.

You know, that’s the lousy thing about the concept of stewardship. It shows up everywhere!

And the Beatles said that “money can’t buy me love.” What do they know?

Okay, wait. The stone crushes grapes. But do scissors cut grapes or do grapes make scissors all sticky?

What really got them riled up is that some of them remembered Jesus as that precocious twelve-year-old from back in Luke, chapter two.

Jesus knew what he was doing. “Vera Barcalounger” just doesn’t have the same cache as “Vera Cruz”.

Have you ever noticed how it’s always the other guy who’s wrong?

They say that all the best heros die upside down.

So a priest, a minister and a rabbi all die…

Here at Agnus Day Central, when a bad pun presents itself, we go for it.

It’s worth observing that things don’t get scary for the disciples until Jesus shows up. This is an insight, perhaps, on our own willingness to muddle through with our own half-baked agendas and find God’s intervention in our lives to be what any intervention is: a confrontation with our own sin and a pain in the a**. And that, friends and neighbors, is what we call “the deep end.”