Grumblers
The grumblers hope to entomb us in our past mistakes and misdeeds. Jesus hopes to enshrine us in the gift of new life.
Me
There is a great humbling that comes with putting ourselves at the center. It’s about right-ness… the rightful occupant of the center is God.
Wrestle
What is amazing about God and God’s approach to wrestling with us is God is never trying to contort us into something other than ourselves.
Good News One
When Jesus’ earthly time ended, God’s love continued and continues uniquely and powerfully as Spirit… a companion and a multiplier of good in the real world.
Request
“Increase our faith,” is what Jesus’ friends requested of him. A daring request don’t you think? Especially, given what they’d seen of Jesus’ faith life!
Grieved
God’s love is demonstrated in what God wants for all of us, especially those being ruined by circumstances and then their circumstances being compounded because of the indifference of the comfortable.
Before
The best refreshing that can happen to us and therefore the world, is to remember who God is and what God has done, is doing and will do.
Announcement
“Fear is not your future, God is. Sickness is not your story, God is. Heartbreak is not your home, God is. Death is not the end, God is. So let him turn it in your favor- watch him work it for your good. Cause he’s not done with what he started, he’s not done until...
For the Lost
I was born in a foundling home. (That’s Catholic Church speak for orphanage.) That may be why I think a lot about Jesus’ three stories of being lost and found: a lost sheep, a lost coin and a lost man. Each story tells of a God that risks all, won’t...