Wave-Walker
Walking on Water, by Christian Fandom Geek Lections: The Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost ( Lectionary 19 ), AD 2026 A Homily: Lord, we pray for the preacher, for you know his sins are great. Grace, mercy and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. An old folktale tells of a monk, who one day discovers, much to his own delight, that he has developed the miraculous ability to walk on water. He rushes to demonstrate this newfound capability to his master by running across a river. But rather than praise him for his preternatural spiritual powers, his master simply points downstream to a bridge. Miracles must have meaning, you see. Otherwise they’re just parlor-tricks. The Sea of Galilee, as any half-baked Study Bible will tell you, is in fact a lake, roughly 13 miles long by eight miles wide, making it relatively modest by Minnesota standards. Along its shores one could find Jesus’ home base of Capernaum, the Roman pleasure-resort of Tiberias, an...
