Tag: love

  • Radiate Love

    Radiate Love

    The grace Jesus offers in these healing stories is a grace of transformation, of change, of the true hope of learning to be new.

  • Grace for All

    Grace for All

    Thousands of people abandon Jesus before the end of John 6. Because they are far more interested in him than in where he is going.

  • To Soften Our Hearts

    To Soften Our Hearts

    As followers of Jesus, we are comfortable with the idea of the Good News as work. Less so with what that means for our lives.

  • To lighten the rain

    To lighten the rain

    The joy of the elements is to be felt and experienced—with the courage to be open, to ourselves and others as we are or could be.

  • Trust in Love

    Trust in Love

    In the Ascension, we are invited to reflect on the departure of Jesus from his disciples, and why it is that we always hate goodbyes.

  • Preparing for Departure—for Easter 7B

    Preparing for Departure—for Easter 7B

    In preparing his disciples for his departure, Jesus prays that his joy be in them and that this joy be complete—a truly possible hope.

  • The Root of Joy

    The Root of Joy

    Jesus describes the foundation of God’s dream like a chain of love in which we share love and in it, find the root of joy in life.

  • Why preaching about love is tricky

    Why preaching about love is tricky

    The challenge of preaching about love is that we either treat it as an emotion we like or as cover for doing things we want to excuse.