Monthly Archives: March 2018

It’s Holy Saturday. For Christians, we wait. But for the first followers of Jesus, the whole thing was over.  I’ve wondered how to recapture that.  So I go watch the news.  There it is! A total loss of hope.  Whether … Continue reading →

We are the hands and feet of Jesus in the world. Where are we, as those hands and feet? With starving children around the world? With refugees seeking home? With school children afraid of their places of education? With ethnic … Continue reading →

We had a joke about today when I was a kid; you probably did, too: how can it be both Monday and Thursday at the same time? Yeah, it wasn’t really funny, then, either, unless you were a third grade … Continue reading →

We’re almost there. Almost there, as Jesus prepares himself for the ultimate showdown with power, both the religious power of the Jews and the political power of the Romans. Almost there, as Jesus prepares himself for the continued cloud of … Continue reading →

When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?”  He said to him, “‘You shall love the … Continue reading →

Day 2: things are beginning to intensify for Jesus, his followers, the Jewish leaders, and the Romans. Romans? Surely they don’t come into the picture until late Thursday night, right? Come on folks, let’s not be unrealistic. If you are … Continue reading →

For the pastor leading worship today, a paradox: the joy and triumph of Jesus’ entering Jerusalem AND the beginning of the worst week of Jesus’ life. Yeah, I know, there’s Easter in sight: for us. For Jesus and the disciples … Continue reading →

On the day of the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School shootings in Florida, the immediate reaction of politicians (and others) was something to the effect of, “We send them our thoughts and prayers.” And the responses to this, even among … Continue reading →

There is an old evangelical term that I don’t hear in my religious circles much any more: “convicted.” It’s a legal term to most people, and in Christianity, when you are “convicted,” it means pretty much the same thing as … Continue reading →

I ran into this little list on Pinterest this afternoon and thought it might do for something to think about. Humility is a difficult concept for our culture. We spend a lot of time trying to build self-esteem in those … Continue reading →