• Everyday Heroes

    Everyday Heroes

    Nicodemus comes to him because he saw the signs, because he believes, because he wants something more, something only Jesus can give.

  • Divine Suffering

    Divine Suffering

    Jesus is led into the wilderness to be tempted. Tempted with power, understanding, everything he could desire. Everything we desire.

  • Welcome to Lent

    Welcome to Lent

    Lent, that season before Easter, is known for abstaining and fasting. But it is more than that. It’s a learning lab with a deadline. Lent as a 40-Day Love ChallengeAsh Wednesday | Matthew 6:1-6,16-21 Today is the first day of Lent. Like many Christians, all over the world, I got up and focused on devotion.…

  • A New World

    A New World

    The Transfiguration comes as a strange interlude. But its brevity reveals its true purpose is to reorient the disciples to their new journey.

  • In My Backyard

    In My Backyard

    In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus pushes us to examine our place and our sense of community in an atomized and dysfunctional world.

  • In the Mix

    In the Mix

    In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus invites us to see how they are already blessed by God to be the way the kin-dom comes into the world.

  • Honor

    Honor

    In giving Rush Limbaugh the Medal of Freedom, President Trump seeks to redefine honor and freedom from the American people.

  • Between — The Big Crowds and the Big Sermon

    Between — The Big Crowds and the Big Sermon

    We have a way of mistaking the fame of Jesus in the gospels for something mundane. Rather than what it is: a reflection of the mission.