Facing the Future with Hope
Cycle B Gospel Text Sermons for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany
Eugene Peterson tells about his boyhood days growing up in the "Big Sky" country of Montana. One day as a five-year-old Eugene stood at a barbed wire fence looking at a farmer plowing the field with his enormous tractor. The thing the boy wished for most in those days was to get a ride on a John Deere tractor. The boy knew the man driving the tractor was Brother Storm who always sat at the back of the church. Suddenly, the man stopped the tractor, stood up, and from his seat began to make strong waving motions with his arms. The big man looked mean and angry.
