Luke 4:14-21 Dear Partner in Preaching, This week’s passage is only part-one in a two-part drama or, really, tragedy. The larger story presages the Passion, I think, as the crowds who are first so impressed by, and excited to hear, Jesus preach (this week), quickly turn on him and threaten to throw him off a cliff (next week). Chapters later, crowds will welcome him with equal measures of acclamation, admiration, and anticipation when Jesus enters Jerusalem, only to call for his execution days later. Which makes it a bit hard to preach this week’s story, as we know it’s only the first half of a larger narrative and that the...