In this finale to the Lenten Exercises series we contemplate Jesus’ rejection and simultaneous exhalation.
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How is it that every year, when we hear this story, we never consider that Peter was in a position to testify on Jesus’ behalf?
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Jesus’ response to his friends’ sleeping shows dizzying amounts of compassion and self-control.
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Guest writer Bette Dickinson offers hope in a season of loss.
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What if the loneliness that drives you to seek consolation was meant to expand your heart in compassion for Jesus?
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We may feel invisible or forgotten. We are not.
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The gospel enables us not to deny or to despair of death but beckons us to death-defying hope.
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We conceive of glory as crowds cheering, celebrity treatment, recognition, and appreciation. Jesus reveals the glory of God by entering into suffering himself.
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We must answer the questions while rejecting tribal allegiances. We are to do this in ways that demonstrate our love for God and reflect God’s command to love our neighbors.
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God’s posture towards us, even when we turn in towards ourselves, is generous, a chance to turn and be healed.
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It’s one thing to be impressed with or even comforted by Jesus. It’s another thing to let Jesus flip over the tables and drive out your money changers.
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Jesus explains that the man was born blind so that the works of God might be revealed in him. Blindness is not sin or punishment. This man, seeing or unseeing, shares the same call as every human being; to reflect God’s work.
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From Jesus’ perspective the value of one’s contribution isn’t determined by how big it is in the eyes of the world.
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If I long for God’s life, I have to confront my attachment to wealth.
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Hanging there, exposed, vulnerable, and unsure stirs my fears of rejection, embarrassment, and shame.
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The way of Jesus is not the way of this world. Jesus’ vision of the poor, captive, blind, and oppressed are larger and more expansive than ours. Followers of Jesus learn to love like God loves.
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Is the ability to resist temptation an innate capacity, something the marshmallow experiment can measure but not create?
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In a church racked with sex scandals we need a new theological imagination.
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If we can meet God in the midst of our awkward and vulnerable, where can we not meet him?
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It’s a well-known story. Jesus’ opponents come to him, dragging a woman who has been, “caught” in the “very act” of adultery. They ask him if they should stone her, according to the law of Moses.
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