Mary, the mother of Jesus is said to have both, “treasured” and “pondered” (Luke 2) her experiences with your son Jesus. Both of these words are foreshadowing of the kind of personnel self-reflection each of Jesus’ followers would experience as the death of the Christ becomes more and more of a reality. The Epiphany season … Read More “Lent 2023” »
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The Christian life is full of opportunities to walk past the manger. Mankind has the tendency to use, so to speak, the birth of Christ as a kind of initiation ceremony in which people are given a spring-board-of-faith believed to propel them into a glorious future of niceness in the world. Before long, being nice … Read More “Epiphany: Return of Innocence” »
This is one of the grand chapters of the Bible, a gallery of notable portraits of ancient great believers, each drawn with a master hand. They all believed the unseen, they all trusted a promise, things for which they had to wait and hope. One grand characteristic makes them all kin—faith. Things adverse, matters contradictory, … Read More “A Grand Expression of Faith (Hebrews 11:1-12)” »
At the core, a moral is intended to answer the question, “What should I/we do?” More specifically, “What is the right thing to do, say, believe, think or feel, at any given moment?” We become painfully aware of moral failure when we are informed by others that we have failed to support them in a … Read More “Christmas In July” »