Atonement
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Wading through grace
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5 min read
This one verse, John 3:16, is treated like an evangelism tool. The whole experience is of a verse taken completely out of context.
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Revealing the way of death
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8 min read
Luke makes it clear Jesus doesn’t “deserve” the crucifixion. Not only to maintain Jesus’s innocence but prove the moral corruption of execution.
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Seven Stories and Revealing the Nonviolent Bible
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11 min read
The trouble with violence and the Bible isn’t just in the way we read it or even that it’s baked into our theology. We can’t even see Jesus at the center when our convictions are founded on violence. I was pretty young when I first asked “what’s so good about Good Friday?” Probably 10 or…
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Ending Violence
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7 min read
In the Passion, we become the witnesses, not only to the brutality put upon Jesus, but to the violence we impose upon one another. the Crucifixion destroys the justification for violence Good Friday | John 18:1-19:42 It’s often said the Passion preaches itself. Its power is self-evident. But it doesn’t quite preach like the fire…
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This Thursday of Holy Week
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5 min read
Between the Last Supper and the Passion, Jesus confronts the place of abandonment, his purpose and confusion. In the garden, we find a moment of intimacy which means so much more than we think. Tonight we’ll be gathering for our Maundy Thursday service. We’ll hear part of the story of the Last Supper from John’s…
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Crossed
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6 min read
He warned them. Three times he said what would happen when they got here. To Jerusalem. Three times. Just like the three times Peter would deny him. And the three times they fell asleep waiting. They knew what was ahead. Jesus told them! But they weren’t prepared for this. Not the cross. Good Friday |…