Tag: discipleship

  • Between Lent 3 & 4 (Year A)

    Between Lent 3 & 4 (Year A)

    After the woman at the well, Jesus gets rebellious at home, drives a wedge between his followers, and takes on the leaders.

  • Harvest — and timely engagement

    Harvest — and timely engagement

    The image Jesus often uses of “the harvest” is useful and, at times, disorienting. Here’s why it can really work.

  • Night time as the right time

    Night time as the right time

    Jesus’s encounter with Nicodemus is a story rich with possibility, value-judgment, and expectations. Reading it that way helps.

  • Listening

    Listening

    The Transfiguration is not merely an event: it is a turning point in the work of teaching Jesus has been doing.

  • Salty (Epiphany 5A)

    Salty (Epiphany 5A)

    In the passage right after the Beatitudes, Jesus describes his followers as being like salt. And a light, too.

  • Still poor in spirit

    Still poor in spirit

    Before we can talk about being “the salt of the earth” we must remember the Beatitudes and our poverty in spirit.

  • Legacies

    Legacies

    Jesus invites fishermen to become disciples. To accept the transformation of their lives. Which is the point.

  • Beyond Family

    Beyond Family

    In calling James and John away from his father and his business, we see Jesus inviting us into something bigger than family.