Christy in the Pulpit: The Adventures of Jesus of Nazareth – The Real Superhero (Part 1)

Iron Man wears a powerful suit of armor to protect himself as he fights evil. Spiderman, of course, shoots webs from his hands and scales walls like a spider. Batman uses a bat-inspired persona to fight crime. Superman… Wonder Woman… The X-Men… the Avengers… the stream of superheroes just never seems to stop, does it?

But not one superhero, from any blockbuster movie, can compare to the stories we read about Jesus in the gospels. For the next four weeks, we’re going to look a little more closely at some of these stories, and rediscover – in our own summer blockbuster – exactly why Jesus of Nazareth is the ultimate superhero.

When I told some of my friends I was going to be preaching on why Jesus is the ultimate superhero, I got a fair amount of side-eye. People know all the great stories about Jesus, but I’m not sure most people would have cast him as a superhero. I mean, he doesn’t fly. He doesn’t wear a cape or tights. He doesn’t drive a souped-up cool car. And the fantastic things he does, he does quietly, unobtrusively. But that, my friends, is exactly why he is a true superhero.

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