The Meaning of the Missing
For Sunday, February 28, 2016 – Luke 13:1-9 “Mind the gap,” the disembodied voice warns passengers stepping onto a London train. Notice what is not there in plain sight. Pay attention to the empty spaces, what you do not see. Jesus, too, urges us to be alert to the absent. Empty branches hang heavy with […]
Utterly Free
For Sunday, February 21, 2016 – Luke 13:31-35 Jesus embodies for us what it looks like and sounds like—what it IS—to live in a state of complete trust in God, letting the Spirit of God live in us and with us and through us, making us utterly free. No longer bound up by fear, not […]
Temptation as Gift
For Sunday, February 14, 2016 – Luke 4:1-13 Even if we fine tune our minds to their most compassionate settings, it is nearly impossible to comprehend the extent of the suffering Jesus experiences in this potent confrontation with evil. However or whatever or whomever we imagine Satan to be—whether physical incarnation or mental apparition—this adversary is anything and everything in […]
Big Moments
For Sunday, February 7, 2016 – Luke 9:28-43a Memorable moments of heightened awareness, “mountaintop moments,” cannot be manufactured. They break in upon us, surprise us, usually leave us feeling shaken and vulnerable. In such times we see that life holds more potential, more mystery than our rational minds comprehend. Mountaintop moments are awesome reminders of God’s reality, but are […]
