Denver Moore was a speaker, a writer and a New York Times bestselling author who lived out his later years in Fort Worth, Texas. His most quoted words are his book “Same Kind of Different as Me:” “Just tell ‘em I'm a nobody that's tryin’ to tell everybody 'bout Somebody that can save anybody.” I moved into his city of Fort Worth about seven months ago and quickly learned that Moore remains a kind of a local legend around here. Even though he passed away in 2012, his story permeates the streets, and his life lingers in their collective memory. Moore lived a hard life. He grew up as a sharecropper, worked on a plantation and lived most of his days in a small town in the South before he decided one night to jump a freight train and ended up in Fort Worth without a job, without a home and without much hope. Now, Moore was a man of faith, and we could make a strong theological argument against his own declaration that he was a “nobody” — but that’s not the point I want to address today. He felt like he was a nobody. He internalized that status. He lived with that belief that sprung from his lived experience in this world. In reading through the lectionary passage this week from Luke, this quote came to my mind as I thought about John. You can find the rest of the commentary on our website.
Thanks to this week’s guest writer! Brian Christopher Coulter is pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Fort Worth, Texas. | 
