Wake Up to Relationship

For Sunday, October 4, 2015 – Mark 10:2-16 One of Jesus’ central goals is to wake us up, to heal our blindness, to move us from the land of denial into truth. To wake up to our collusion with sin, without being sent into spirals of condemnation and despair, is a path to freedom. The […]

Living Half a Life

For Sunday, September 27, 2015 – Mark 9:38-50 What causes us to compete and measure and calculate, even when God doesn’t seem overly concerned about such things? Questions like who is ahead and who is behind, who is doing God’s work (whatever we determine that to be) and who is not, cause the spirit to […]

Interacting With Jesus

For Sunday, September 20, 2015 – Mark 9:30-37 Jesus continues to teach his disciples quite openly about his coming betrayal and death and rising again, even though they do not really understand what he is saying and are afraid to ask. They would prefer to argue among themselves about which of them is the greatest […]

Knowing Who We Are

For Sunday, September 13, 2015 – Mark 8:27-38 Knowing who we are is the key to everything. Only as we begin to know ourselves can we begin to know one another. The true nature of those with whom we journey becomes clearer to us as we become clearer to ourselves. “Who do you say that […]