Beside ourselves (2 Corinthians 5:16-21)
Paul says something really crazy here.
Paul says something really crazy here.
At the heart of each lesson is storytelling and wondering.
The resurrection is an old, old message. But I need to be reminded.
Jesus’ parables ought to alarm us, draw us short.
When I say the creeds, Pilate’s name stands as a warning back to myself.
Penny embodies the kind of love that holds onto hope amid suffering, redemption amid pain, and forgiveness amid hurt.
Foot washing expresses John’s vision of communion.
When we hear Jesus retort, “Tell that fox….,” we have to keep in mind the litany of intersections between Jesus, his followers, and the Herodian dynasty.
When the vandals took Art’s gnome, they took his joy.
Jesus enacts the very things we humans have been unable to enact on our own.