March 15, 2026

“Who is Blind?”

“Who is Blind?” A sermon based on John 9:1-41 and 1 Samuel 16:1-13 delivered on the Fourth Sunday in Lent, March 15, 2026, by the Rev. Alison Dutton Jacobs at the First Congregational UCC of Onekama, Michigan.

Today is the infamous “Ides of March.” A wise Seer is said to have warned Julius Caesar to beware of this date in 44 B.C.E. Caesar seemed “blind” to this warning and was assassinated by 60 Senators who stabbed him 23 times so that he collapsed at the feet of a statue of his rival Pompey. This happened a little less than a half century before the birth of Christ. . . .