Tag: discipleship

  • Come and See

    Come and See

    In reading about the way Jesus calls his disciples, we have the chance to see what we are actually called to participate in.

  • Choosing Jesus over comfort

    Choosing Jesus over comfort

    In this week’s gospel, we see Jesus call Philip and Nathaneal. For us, the challenge lies in recognizing how much we call each other.

  • Being Called—for Epiphany 2B

    Being Called—for Epiphany 2B

    Part of the challenge of connecting with the divine (and one another) is that we forget that even God isn’t doing all of the work.

  • Next—what comes after baptism

    Next—what comes after baptism

    We always focus on the thing. And then, when it comes, our focus needs to shift. And we aren’t always thinking about what comes next.

  • Still Christmas

    Still Christmas

    Episode 60 of the Make Saints podcast

  • Incarnate Grace

    Incarnate Grace

    John’s gospel invites us to see the scope of what we celebrate at Christmas: that an event changes how we see everything.

  • We get to start somewhere

    We get to start somewhere

    This week, we read about the beginning of the good news. Mark’s gospel is a story without an ending. It only ever begins.

  • We get to love like this

    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.