Rev Bill

I have posted my sermon from today on my sermon blog. A sermon for the 3rd Sunday of Advent, it is based on Zephaniah 3:14-20 and Luke 3:7-18 and entitled “Is It Good News?”

Here’s a portion of it:

Most of us don’t know a lot about Rossini’s opera “William Tell” – although I am sure that all of us would recognize it’s overture – especially the rousing finale that became the theme of The Lone Ranger radio and later television programs. I have to confess that I was a Lone Ranger fan as a kid. Regardless of what else was happening, I wanted to be in front of the TV when lines:
“A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust, and a hearty “Hi-yo, Silver!”, The Lone Ranger!”
would come from the TV as the Lone Ranger galloped into view – for I knew that – as the announcer would remind me every show:
“Nowhere in the pages of history can one find a greater champion of justice”
Yea – I loved watching “The Lone Ranger” – but I was always confused that almost every episode would conclude with someone asking: “Who was that masked man?” – and somebody else would say, “Why, didn’t you know? He’s the Lone Ranger!” I could never understand that here was someone whose life had been saved, whose money had been restored, whose ranch had been protected — their whole lives saved from peril — and yet all the way to the end they didn’t have the slightest idea who it was who had saved them. Why hadn’t they ask at the beginning of the program instead of the end? They would allow him to do all this stuff for them without knowing who he was.
They let the Lone Ranger do great things for them without recognizing who he was.
It didn’t make sense to me!

Read the entire sermon here to find out what this has to do with Zephaniah and Luke!

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