Parent Props

We know about famous people because they are – well – famous!  We read, watch, listen and maybe even have an opportunity to meet them.  However, we never hear much about their parents.  Everybody is familiar with, or knows something about Abraham Lincoln.  But, I’ll bet you don’t know who his father was? 

 

There are reams of parents names, lost in the dark recesses of the bin of forgotten oldies, whose children go on to celebrity and historically-documented fame:  Leonardo Da Vinci, William Shakespeare. 


Shakespeare had parents!  John Shakespeare, instead of being respected as the father of the great playwright, history records him as an official “ale taster.”  

 

There are more: George Washington, Albert Einstein, Walt Disney, Bob Dylan, Beyonce and even Charlie Brown.  Have you ever seen Charlie Browns Father?  Didn’t think so!

 

We parents don’t get much respect, even if our progeny become famous do we?  We birth them; it’s our genes, our DNA that we pass on to them.  We raise them and teach them.  Whatever they have, whatever talent, in some part comes from us parents – right!  Where’s the parent “props?”

 

We all have heard of John the Baptist.  Especially around Christmas time, because he is the one who reiterates Isaiah’s prophecy of the one to come – the Messiah, the Christ, the Lamb of God.  

 

He gets all the credit for assigning these words to Jesus. He’s also celebrated in history as The Baptizer, the one who started the Jordan River thing.   He wore weird hippie-clothes and ate wild honey, but do you know who his father was?  No respect - no props!

 

 

But we may shed some light on the subject this Sunday as we continue The Light Of The World Advent Sermon Series.  

 

You’ll want to pay attention to what John’s father had to say.  It has already changed your life, but there is more and it has to do with our fathers DNA!  Come worship with us this sunday and we will shed some light on the subject!