Fourth Sunday of Easter (Year 3, NL)

It is tempting to look to the heavens rather than face the reality of the world.

Too many of us have not had ears to hear. Our marketing materials have been too slick.

I don’t know where Jesus is heading when he encounters the two companions on the road, but it seems like maybe he never does get there.

Herod is frightened—or disturbed, or troubled, or all of the above.

Witness is an act of trust in a God who sends us to see and tell of all the things God is doing.

People who have died do not typically eat fish, nor expound upon the scriptures, nor stand among us to offer a blessing and then get whisked away into heaven.

Some things are too big for a single narrative.

I asked ChatGPT for a sermon. What it wrote seemed to come from everywhere and nowhere.

In his final moments on earth, Jesus delivers a last lecture—with footnotes.

Fruitful ministry becomes sustainable when it is shared, person to person and generation to generation.

In biblical Greek, the word we translate as “abide” is active rather than passive.

Why doesn’t Jesus just remind the disciples of a story or an inside joke they shared before he died?

Pastors face intense challenges—though not necessarily unique ones.

Luke places Jesus’ final blessing and departure in Bethany—the root of which means “house” or “home.”