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We get to love like this
The challenge of loving like Jesus isn’t that we’ll do it wrong. It’s that we think it depends on our being a good person.
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When have you needed a truck?
The easy question we ask ourselves is “Is it possible that I will want it?” when we should be asking “how often will I actually use it?
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There’s quite a lot we can do
There imperative of the gospel forces us to deal with more than who we are; we are forced to examine our actions in everything we do.
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The Final Argument
The teaching at the end of Matthew 25 serves to remind Christians of our focus: not to our own interests, but in helping those around us.
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When? — The persistent existential question
“When did I do that?” — the self-interrogating question of who we are and who we imagine ourselves to be — is our eternal frustration.
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Between Proper 28 + Last (Year A)
We conclude the lectionary cycle this week with the stunning conclusion to the confrontational arc in Jerusalem: that should hit us as right.
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Let’s talk about money
In the parable of the talents, Jesus invites us to see the destructive and dishonest truth of greed—and the truth of abundant grace.
