Today is the last day of Lent. Tomorrow the world slips into darkness and only reemerges on Easter morn. With the disciples, we stand on the edges of a horror …
A Parable Full of Calvary
Who doesn’t like great food with friends? There’s nothing like the music of a room filled with good conversation, perfumed by the aromas of excellent food. In Jesus’ parable in …
Returning the Money
Following Jesus is a difficult proposition. That becomes very clear in the way that Jesus invites people to his Path. And also the way Jesus warns wannabee disciples. In Jesus’ …
Not A Political Parade
Yesterday, Jesus and his disciples processed into the City. Like a parade float on Market Street in San Francisco. Cars stopping. Honking. People pointing. Bystanders thought it might be a …
Hunger That’s a Choice
Mark said that Jesus and his disciples went to a “deserted place” in order to rest from the demands of their mission. However, crowds of people, who noticed Jesus’ departure, …
Christ Embodied
There was a heresy that sprung up in the 2nd Century called Docetism. The name comes from a Greek word which means “to seem,” and it referred to the belief …
Blood, Amniotic Fluid, and Vernix
View PostThe Mindset of Jesus
I have been thinking about what was on Jesus’ mind in the wilderness. No one can know that because it is not mentioned in the wilderness temptation narratives. However, something …
The Antidote
Jesus is not the only person who has encountered a wilderness. Ancient Israel did as well, but they did not have the focus and intention of Jesus. They were crippled …
Happy Easter
View PostTurn Off the Noise!
In the late 80’s my son and I went on a canoe trip in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area of N. Minnesota. The BWCA is over a million acres in …
Eat Grass Like an Ox
Hubris is never a good thing. Defined as exaggerated pride or self-confidence, it shuts a human being off from God as well as other people. Hubris is like sailing around …
Knowing What You Want
Jesus was alone in the wilderness. And when you’re alone you begin to discover what your true self is. There’s no one there to pull your arm or whisper in …
Distraction
I saw a picture recently of Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. It was taken in the dark of night with a star-filled backdrop. The Milky Way stretched out like thick …
Follow Me
In its birth, Lent was meant to be a time of preparation for baptism which, of course, is a lofty ambition for this time of quiet and reflection. However, as …
Abracadabra
We should put a book mark at Matthew 4:3. It is the moment when Satan says to Jesus, “Your stomach is sunken and growling; you should make yourself some bread …
Despising Its Shame
Elie Wiesel (1928 – 2016) was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, including Night, a work based on his experiences …
When God Seemed to Be an Atheist
“Our faith must be born where it is abandoned by all tangible reality; it must be born of nothingness; it must taste this nothingness and be given it to taste …
Calvary is Judo.
View PostMay thy kingdom come!
Shortly after his 40-day trial in the Wilderness, Jesus began his ministry in earnest. Matthew says that Jesus went throughout Galilee “proclaiming good news, curing every disease and sickness, paralysis, …
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