Calling – July 5, 2022
“Would you believe I have known seasons in which even the cadence of my voice has changed so that I might belong to a group of people whose stories and thoughts and ways were never anything like mine? But each year I know love and belonging—a love that doesn’t require sacrifice at the door of […]
Cutting Our Losses
If your hand makes you sin, cut it off! Better that you should be maimed but obtain eternal life, rather than keep both hands and go to hell [Gei-Hinnom], to unquenchable fire!* As someone who doesn’t believe in hell, or in the kind of God who would send people there, what do I do with […]
Sacrifice – Apr. 26, 2019
“If we are really honest with ourselves, we must admit that our lives are all that really belong to us, so it is how we use our lives that determines what kind of persons we are. And it is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life. I am convinced […]
When Things Fall Apart
The student’s heads were on a swivel, necks craning to take in the grandeur and elegance of the temple—impressed by this great work of human hands. “It’s all going to come tumbling down”, says Jesus.* On a high place, across from this house of God, Jesus warns his friends that fake leaders will soon appear, […]
