Father Snort

Brad Sullivan 2 Epiphany, Year B January 14, 2018 Emmanuel, Houston John 1:43-51 The Families of the Earth Can Be Blessed Through You “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” I love this question of Nathanael’s partly because it appeals to my snarky side, and also because the obvious answer is supposed to be “no.” Nazareth was a Podunk little sparrow fart town. The messiah was not supposed to come from there, and further, at least in Nathanael’s mind nothing good could come from such a crummy place. Nathanael would have rather written off Jesus and anyone from Nazareth. Let’s leave those people there, and go on and hope for the messiah to come from somewhere important. God just wasn’t playing Nathanael’s little game of making sure things looked good enough on the outside to stroke his ego. “Sorry Nate,” God said. “I know you want to be associated with a Messiah from some