Showing Us God
For Sunday, September 6, 2015 – Mark 7:24-37 We all find ourselves there sometimes, in the dried up flat lands of Bottomed Out. Constant needs hurl themselves headlong into us, shriek our names, insist on our response until we feel utterly depleted by their demands. Does it help to know that Jesus, too, sometimes needed […]
Making New Traditions
For Sunday, August 30, 2015 – Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 Some are quick to notice that Jesus and his disciples don’t rigorously follow religious tradition, in this case washing their hands before they eat. How slow we are to see our own deviations from practices and patterns of faith, and how glad we are to critique others. “Why do your disciples not live […]
Come Away and Rest
For Sunday, July 19, 2015 – Mark 6:30-34, 53-56 As excited as kids just home from camp, the disciples tell Jesus about their amazing expeditions to the places he has sent them. They went with nothing—no supplies, no money, no instruction manual—and have returned filled with a deeper sense of their own capacity and calling. […]
The High Price of Regret
For Sunday, July 12, 2015 – Mark 6:14-29 When the disciples go out, two by two, carrying the light of God’s love and learning not to fear rejection, they are becoming themselves, strong in their own identities. How upsetting this is to the established realms of power in our lives. Going from village to village, […]
