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Lead with Love
We want Jesus to teach us how to love like it takes a methodology or more faith than we have. Instead, Jesus shows how that misses the point. Jesus and the teaching of uncommon forgivenessProper 22CLuke 17:1-10 We jump into the story with the apostles shouting “Increase our faith!” It makes it all sound random.…
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A parable of white privilege and black suffering
A retelling of Luke 17:1-10 A Parable “There was a black man sitting in his home, watching TV. An off duty police officer, who was white, broke into his home and shot him in the chest. At her murder trial, the man’s brother was invited to testify. Everyone in the courtroom expected the younger brother…
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Between: A Millstone Around Your Neck Would Be Better
seeing the gaps in the lectionary. This week: the gap between Proper 21C and Proper 22C. The text: Luke 17:1-4. Context First things first. We are now many chapters passed when Jesus turned his face toward Jerusalem. This means we are getting far closer to arriving in Jerusalem than we are to those easy days…
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No Excuse Not to Love
We make lots of excuses not to love. They’re all trash. Every single one. Because Christians have no excuses to avoid loving other people.
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Unbound Grace
The parable reveals how blind the rich man is to reality. And in reading it, Jesus hopes we won’t continue to share the same delusion.
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Between: those Lovers of Money
In just a few verses, Jesus ties us in knots and turns us into our enemies.
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The most powerful thing Greta Thunberg has done is to speak the truth.
Our problem is we fear courage. We want it to work for us. Never hurt us. And only ever conform to our desires and hopes for the world.
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Bad Economics
Jesus keeps teaching us about the limits of transactional thinking — and the life-giving beauty of sacrifice in his way of love.
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