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Welcome—offering it and feeling it
People can really obsess about being welcomed. Often more than the welcoming they do. But maybe it is quite simple.
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In the Borderlands
The borderlands are as much a character in the story this week as any of the people. What we make of that is essential.
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On the Inside
For a second time, Jesus shames elites at a dinner party. Here’s what he’s trying to teach us about power and shame.
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Rushing the Tipping Point
It’s true. We all want to be first. We do not want to be last. There is a Fear of Missing Out (FOMO). And certainly there is a sense of being tired of doing what we’re doing. That’s four reasons why we are “opening” before the tipping point has actually arrived. Of course, there isn’t…
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Revising the Guest List
Jesus is a terrible guest at your dinner party. While you’re worrying about who’s going to show up, he’s inviting everyone in. Jesus and the art of the dinner partyProper 17C | Luke 14:1,7-14 When I was young, I loved sleepovers. This was the real political currency of junior high school. Whose house you went…
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The United Methodist Church didn’t listen to Jesus yesterday.
Today the United Methodist Church stepped away from unity. In fact, the only path toward unity was on the table and a simple majority rejected it.
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Insatiable Desire – How Jesus provides the antidote to what is killing us
Jesus is a terrible dinner guest. One would think that by now the Pharisees would know better than to invite Jesus for dinner. He’s always complaining about how we treat the help and how exclusive the guest list is. He calls us out in front of our friends and all but calls us greedy and…
