Father Snort

Brad Sullivan 3rd Easter, Year C April 10, 2016 Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church, Bay City, TX John 21:1-19 “Have Some Kryptonite” – Sayings of Superman in Jesus’ Kingdom As we know, Jesus’ disciples and hoards of his followers were wanting Jesus to be a big gallant conqueror who would kick out Rome and end up basically ruling over all the other nations, so that Israel would not only remove Rome from power, but would also take Rome’s place as the world power, the empire over all nations. Jesus told his disciples and hoards of followers that he was not going to bring about some huge military campaign to establish his kingdom, at least he said this implicitly. He taught about not fighting against the governing authorities, turning the other cheek when someone hits you; he said, “My kingdom not from here, if were, I’d have angels coming, to my rescue, but as it is, my kingdom is not from here.” Then he