Tag: Grace

  • Having to

    Having to

    The boundaries evident in the passage about the woman at the well are evocative. And so is the way Jesus crosses them.

  • Blessed

    Blessed

    The Beatitudes challenge us to see the love in vulnerability, hope in fear, and in the blessing of justice.

  • Mercy and the power of unearned grace

    Mercy and the power of unearned grace

    The gift of mercy is unearned grace. But it is also way more than that. It exists outside the earned/unearned continuum.

  • The Inevitable Search for Eternal Life

    The Inevitable Search for Eternal Life

    In a story we assume is about wealth, Jesus reveals our misconceptions about life, grace, and the human project.

  • Not wealth, grace

    Not wealth, grace

    When Jesus tells us about the problems with wealth, we get hung up on whether or not he means us. But that isn’t the point. For the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost – Proper 23B Collect Lord, we pray that your grace may always precede and follow us, that we may continually be given to good…

  • courage

    courage

    Gracefully living in the now. Peter shows courage in naming Jesus Messiah. He also shows courage in standing up to Jesus in the moment. Jesus shows courage in confronting that temptation to avoid the challenge ahead of them. Following Jesus takes courage. It often seems like we encourage one another to display courage to benefit…

  • Love and the Vine

    Love and the Vine

    In comparing himself to the vine, Jesus gives us an opportunity to see the communal nature of love.

  • Christmas Stories

    Christmas Stories

    We expect our Christmas stories to be full of joy. But they often only end that way. How we get there is how we find grace.