Epiphany: Glory Beyond Our Expecting
Sermons On The Gospel Readings
For Sundays In Advent, Christmas, And Epiphany
In 1986 a relatively unknown basketball team from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock defeated the highly-favored Notre Dame team in the NCAA basketball tournament. Reporters who crowded around Coach Mike Newell following the game wanted his analysis of the victory. He answered, simply and significantly, "Your only limitation is your imagination."
Our lives are often fenced in by our low expectations. This is true not only of what we expect of ourselves, but also of what we expect to happen in our world, and what we think might be the purpose of God in our times.