What We Need
For Sunday, April 26, 2015 – John 10:11-18 Usually my attention goes immediately to the relationship between the sheep and the shepherd. How good and kind the shepherd is, willing to give his life for the sheep. How comforting to see myself as one of many, just an ordinary sheep, yet extraordinarily loved and known. […]
A New Understanding
Luke 24:36b-48 “Startled and terrified” is an apt description of how we are responding to much of life these days. We are startled by world events and our lack of control over them, terrified of one another, of all we do not condone or understand. Jesus comes to his friends as they hide out behind locked doors, entering the tomb of their fear. He comes […]
To Do What Is Ours to Do
For Sunday, June 1, 2014 – John 17:1-11 The Westminster Shorter Catechism of 1647 states succinctly that our “chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy God forever.” With everything else going on in our lives, so many people and activities vying for our attention and energy, where does “glorifying and enjoying God” fit in? What does it mean, anyway, […]
Abiding Spirit
John 14:15-21John 14:15-21 I notice right away the bookends holding up this passage of scripture, the two reminders to love and obey. To love—from beginning to end—to love first, to love last, to love long, and then to love again. And to obey—to listen deep and wide, and to respond, always, from the home base […]
