Vocation, Not Self-Promotion ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Vocation, Not Self-Promotion ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Here is Nazareth, the neediest of Israel’s villages, well known as a place of dishonour. And yet, instead of celebrating their local celebrity, the people were filled with scepticism at Jesus’ works. Is not this the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary? Matthew 13: 54-58 recounts an episode in which Jesus visits Nazareth and finds the population sceptical about His ministry. Where did this man get his wisdom and these mighty works they…