Mount Calvary Sermons

But deep down his doubts are as real as hers, his anger just as strong. That curse. At times it threatens to overwhelm them. Elizabeth bears the pitying glances of the ignorant with quiet dignity, betraying a depth of grace that befits her noble heritage. When she married Zechariah there was such joy and hope – two priestly families joined in blessed union. But then, slowly, after months turned to years, it became clear to the whole city that God had not blessed them, but had pronounced the curse. Now the years had turned to decades, and those decades had calcified into a cold, dead state of permanence. These are unenlightened days. Jesus will come and rip away the curtain that prevents people from seeing the true, full heart of God. But for now, superstition enslaves people with the lie that God is displeased with childless couples; they must have done something very wrong to be denied the blessing of offspring in an age when the survival of people too old to work depended on having adult children to s