I lived in a few cool places that are desirable to the masses, a whole bunch of people congregate, like Chicago.

I went there for undergrad and then grad school and I lived in the

front range of Colorado growing up. That's a pretty neat place. Lots of people

like that. I lived in Vegas for a year. That was an odd year but you know

there's some good friendships that came out of that so I can't fault it too much.

But for the most part, I've lived in what you'd call flyover country.

The stuff that maybe when historians look back on the world a hundred years from now these places just

aren't going to come up this isn't the part of the world where the news happens or

maybe it should be news but people are interested in things that happen in flashier parts of the country, flashier parts of the world.

And for those of us who do live in flyover country, most of us are totally cool with that.

Well, in the New Testament Testament when we're talking about the

public ministry of Jesus we've got some pretty popular places that come up

again and again and again. Capurnium keeps coming up.

Jerusalem is obviously going to be a big deal,

but you've also got your flyover country locations

that, eh, you've hung around the New Testament

for a little while, you recognize these names,

but if somebody put it to you

and they're like hey what happened in those particular flyover towns you probably

have to dig through your Bible to remember what it was and two of these flyover

territory towns come up in Matthew Chapter 11 when Jesus is

proclaiming his statements of woe against these particular locations where

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