Pastor's Corner: Independence Day thoughts -  Luke 10:1-11, 16-20

We tend to like heroes. But Jesus shows us what happens when ordinary people sign up for cross-bearing discipleship. The results are anything but ordinary.

It's an unforgettable photo. The raising of the flag at Iwo Jima. In fact, if you had to pick 10 photographs to tell the story of our country, this one featuring U.S. soldiers lifting up the American flag would be one of them, never mind that it was a posed re-enactment of the real thing. Iwo Jima is a dot in the Pacific where the United States needed a landing strip for bombers striking Japan during World War II. Some 70,000 marines were s...