Prairie Hills Covenant Church

In the first commercial break following Beyonce’s halftime show of the 2013 Super Bowl between the Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers, Dodge debuted a Commercial featuring the narration of Paul Harvey. The commercial honors the hard work and compassionate heart of farmers. No description will do the commercial justice, go ahead and watch it here. Much like us, Jesus lived in the midst of an agrarian society. Jesus was not a farmer himself, he likely grew up learning his father’s trade, stone masonry. (I know we typically envision Joseph as a wood working carpenter. But that is a result of the Western European tradition that envisioned a construction carpenter as a wood worker, because during the middle ages Europeans primarily used wood in construction. In ancient Palestine, construction grade wood was rare and expensive. Most construction was done with brick and stone, thus Joseph was certainly a stone mason.) Even though Jesus wasn’t a farmer himself, as a result of cultural immersion, he would have