Sturtz Stuff

            In Acts 12 King Herod starts making trouble for the Christians. Herod is a puppet King in the area of Judea for the Romans. The Romans selected Herod to do their bidding. This is not the same Herod when Jesus was born. That was the first Herod this his grandson. Yet, he is just a problematic for the followers of Jesus. Herod is seeking to get power and maintain power by making sure that the Jews like him. Herod notices that there was this one small group that was going around claiming that Jesus was the King of the Jews. Herod picked up on the fact this small group created a lot of conflict among the Jews. Perhaps Herod figured that if he picked off one of the minor leaders of the small group then maybe that might go over well with the larger Jewish population and their leaders. Herod could be calculating that that this action might gain him the trust and loyalty of the Jewish leaders.      ...

Tony got word that he had done a good thing. Tony's supervisor had noticed that he got to work on time and often stayed late. Tony’s hard work was rewarded and recognized by his supervisor in front of his fellow co-workers. It was pointed out that that ruff and gruff Tony had not had an accident on his crew in over a year. Tony has done a good thing. When the supervisor told these things to Tony in front of his crew he started to cry. He said “Nobody has ever said good things about me.”   Tony was so overcome that he invited the supervisor to his home. When the supervisor arrived Tony introduced him to his wife. She said “It has been like Christmas around here because of what you said.” About 12 years later Tony and his former supervisor met again. Tony was now a supervisor himself and working for a railroad company. They sat down over lunch to talk about old times. Tony said that “The day you told me I did a good job it changed my life. It made a difference in my li...