Sacrifice and Risk – Do We have Faith Enough?
December 15, 2023 ‘So, just risk everything with no guarantees as to the outcome-that’s what sacrifice is.’ While taking trips down the celluloid memory lane during the recent SAG strike, I stumbled on Suits, and the above quote stopped me dead in my tracks. I will leave it to you to watch the show for…
Scared or Grateful?
October 22, 2023 Recently I have listened to more than one conversation regarding ‘why we believe in Jesus.’ The conversations oddly don’t center around the truth of the resurrection nor the truth that Jesus is the Son of God. Rather these conversations concern the behavior that will keep us out of hell. The conversations explored…
The Lady on the Asphalt
July 14, 2023 Yesterday, as I was out biking, I approached ‘something’ in the middle of the hot asphalt path. As I got closer, I noticed that ‘something’ was a person, seated on the path, leaning against a shopping cart. The person appeared to be an elderly Muslim man in traditional attire so I knew…
Rules
April 30, 2023 Have you ever come across troubling passages in the gospels that you either choose to ignore or make excuses for what happens in the account? Particularly if the thing that troubles you is something about Jesus; something that shows Him as less than tranquil, less than divine, less than perfect; something that,…
Spiritual CPR
April 9, 2023 Oh to breathe again! After all the heavy self-reflection of Lent, the somber spiritual grieving of Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, the silence of the sealed tomb of Holy Saturday, we have a definite need to breathe! Those last words Jesus uttered from the cross on Friday can put us in a place…
Last Breaths
April 8, 2023 I have been privileged to sit at the bedside of many people at the time of their deaths. I have listened to their breathing as I held their hands. I have stood on the periphery of the families as they surrounded their loved one. I have listened to words of leave taking,…
Is It Worth It, No Matter What?
March 26, 2023 Something has really been bugging me this Lenten season. I have tried to ‘let it go’, but no luck. I have run my thoughts by some of my friends in the classes I facilitate and participate in only to make everyone a bit uncomfortable. Still, I just can’t seem to let it…
Letting Go
March 13, 2023 I believe we are going through a time of great spiritual weirdness right now. People are co-opting Christ by using Christianity as a battering ram for personal agendas and man ’splaining/woman ’splaining Jesus’ teachings to validate whatever they choose to belief. Jesus has been put in a ‘human Jesus box’ of sorts –…
Carrying the Cross: Have We Misunderstood?
February 20, 2023 I can’t believe Lent’s almost here! It’s that time in the church year when we’re invited to reflect on Christ’s sacrificial love for us and sit in the profundity of that sacrifice. The Lenten journey starts with Ash Wednesday when we recall the stark truth of our own mortality. “Remember that you are dust and…
Quiet Eyes
August 16, 2022 “Forgive them, Father. They don’t know what they’re doing.” (Luke 23:34) I am convinced that these are among the most powerful words ever spoken by our Lord. They are words spoken from the cross. Words spoken when the Lord felt most alone. Words spoken when the Lord could see no obvious assurance…
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