Who Are You?
For Sunday, May 29, 2016 – Luke 7:1-10 Who are you, really? How likely is it that we will ever know each other, really? It is so much easier to make assumptions, to tuck each other into small compartments, our many costly but convenient categories. If I can label you politician, warmonger, religious zealot, peace […]
Little by Little
For Sunday, May 22, 2016 – John 16:12-15 With his departure drawing near, Jesus tells his friends, “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.” This small statement might be one of the most thoughtful things one person can say to another. I don’t know about you, but […]
Doing What He Did
For Sunday, May 15, 2016 – John 14:8-17, (25-27) Philip says to Jesus, “Show us the one you call Father. Then we will be satisfied.” Jesus is taken aback: “How can you say that? After all this time, what am I, chopped liver?” Even more audacious is Philip’s idea that seeing what lies beyond them will […]
The Heart of It All
For Sunday, May 8, 2016 – John 17:20-26 Jesus longs to plant deeply within all who will listen the central truth of his life—that at the heart of it all is love. The love of God has poured prodigally into Jesus, causing the love of Jesus to pour into his friends so that the love […]
