This parable is not about finances or management. It is a parable about new life.
Read MoreIgnoring this tension ignores that tension reveals even more to us about God than we imagine.
Read MoreAmos was clear – you cannot compartmentalize your life.
Read MoreGod takes the most fragmented parts of our modern “post-Babel” lives and makes them whole.
Read MoreIf you are scratching your head thinking this story sounds familiar, that is because it is.
Read MoreThe witness we bear to the world is to the One who does not see our comfort in constancy as a hurdle to the wideness of God’s mercy.
Read MoreThe story in Acts you've probably never heard.
Read MoreWe stand today as witnesses to the awesome work of God along the Damascus Road.
Read MoreThe cause of Jesus’ lament, our sin, does not hold the final word. Jesus has invited us to stop the puppet show and to step into his grace under his wing of love, protection, and transformation.
Read MoreThough we are shaped by social, cultural, and economic pressures that tell us we must ascend, if we listen, if we set aside our own noise, we hear words of grace.
Read MoreThe resurrection of Jesus Christ, according to the New Testament, is not a myth or moral metaphor. The resurrection of Jesus Christ, according to the New Testament, is FACT.
Read MoreGod did not choose the pride-filled, the historically strong, or influential at the first Advent.
Read MorePeace by the pointy end of a sword, gun, or any instrument of violence exemplifies how well we do not understand the very thing we all want for ourselves generations to come.
Read MoreThe good ‘ole days are what they used to be.
Read MoreWhy don't we read from the prophet Joel more often? Is there anything the Spirit can't do? Is grace unacceptable?
Read MoreThis book is confusing. I have been reading it - off and on - since I received my third-grade bible with bonded leather with red letters. I have spent countless hours studying in the basement of a seminary, with friends and strangers, and around dining room tables and I can tell you this - I have not figured it out.
Read MoreFoolishness, according to Jesus, is not merely a flippant attitude but instead is an obsession/need for more - greed.
Read MoreWe cannot fully understand or recognize the extravagant mercy of the Good Samaritan until we ourselves have been pulled from the ditch by Christ.
Read MoreTo make Paul’s words through this entire letter plain - Simply put… it is foolish to think we can fool G-d with self-righteous works of the Law to achieve salvation. Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection are sufficient for all people.
Read MoreAs the confirmands receive the sign of the cross on their foreheads and the baptismal waters flow off of your head Milana, we as a community will pray that the Holy Spirit take up residence inside you, inside the confirmands, moving, prodding, and leading you all to be faithful disciples of Jesus Christ.
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