Fifth Sunday in Lent
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An Omicron Christmas
I don’t know if this is the pandemic’s end game. I do know that new things are already being born in us.
The New Testament’s most dangerous book for Jews
Reading and preaching Hebrews without supersessionism
A God who does laundry (Lent 5B) (Psalm 51:1-12)
On giving Eugene Peterson's The Message another chance
March 21, Lent 5B (Hebrews 5:5–10; John 12:20–33)
In ancient Israel, priests were the gates through which God poured mercy.
When a father and husband walked out, grace called him home
I preached a word of judgment. The stranger in the back row heard grace.
How Arvo Pärt speaks prayer into a secular world
The composer sees his music as an interplay between suffering and consolation, loss and hope.
October 21, Ordinary 29B (Hebrews 5:1-10; Mark 10:35-45)
Bumbling along in the footsteps of Melchizedek
Learning costly resistance from Bonhoeffer
Cheap resistance is like cheap grace. It risks very little.
What does a high priest do? (Hebrews 5:5-10; John 12:20-33)
A worshiper can go a long time without any idea of who Melchizedek is and what it means to be a priest according to his order.
March 18, Lent 5B (John 12:20-33)
The crucified Jesus in John's Gospel is cosmic—and magnetic.
Oscar Romero's grain of wheat
This month in 1980, the Salvadoran archbishop was assassinated—shortly after preaching on John 12.
God doesn’t always do a gut rehab
I believe God can make us completely over, but I also believe that this is not always necessary.
March 22, 2015, Fifth Sunday in Lent: John 12:20-33
The Jesus that John shows us in this week’s Gospel text is not a religious robot, unemotionally prepared to end it all for the cause. He sees the risks, feels them.