Acts 16:9-15 So why do you suppose Paul was so open to receiving and responding to the vision which had him traveling to Macedonia? What convinced him that this was God’s call? This is how I have come think about this in the last few days: I had lunch with our local chief of police …
Month: April 2016
If We Have Love For One Another
John 13:31-35 This last Sunday night we spent some time thinking about forgiveness with our confirmation youth. Specifically, we were focusing in on the petition of the Lord’s Prayer where we pray, “Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.” To bring the learning home, one of the exercises we shared …
Tell Us Plainly
John 10:22-30 If I’m honest, on some days I can certainly resonate with those who demanded that Jesus ‘tell them plainly’ who he was. In fact, sometimes I have a hard time fully understanding the people around me, much less those who walked among us thousands of years ago. In fact, this challenge of understanding …
Back to Where They Began?
John 21:1-19 At least the disciples have managed to get themselves out from behind locked doors. For as you may recall, when last we met up with them in John’s Gospel, that is exactly where they were when they last encountered Jesus. Paralyzing fear can do that to us, of course, and perhaps it is …