I had a full week-end celebrating a beloved nephew’s wedding and now am getting ready to head out of town on a Civil Rights Tour which I am helping lead. Below you will find my thoughts from several years ago on this challenging text. God bless you as you ponder Jesus’ words for us this …
Month: May 2021
As With Nicodemus, So Also With You: God Is Not Done Yet
John 3:1-17 I thought this week I would spend my time elsewhere, but Nicodemus drew me in once more. Oh, I have been wrestling with Nicodemus and his nighttime encounter with Jesus for as long as I can remember. (Go ahead and search John 3:1-17 on this blog and you will get a sampling of …
“And They Lived, And Stood On Their Feet, a Vast Multitude…”
Ezekiel 37:1-14 It is so that in these last days I have meandered between the various readings assigned for the Festival of Pentecost this time around. I pondered the nearness of the Spirit in Romans, (Romans 8:22-27), how One could be so close and know each one of us so well so as to be …
Living as God’s Beloved Image: In the World, But Not of It
John 17:6-19 “…because they do not belong to the world…” What is it to live by a different set of values? To be governed by different hopes and expectations? To be shaped by another dream altogether: by God’s dream instead of the paltry ones we too often settle for? What is it to NOT belong …
But I Chose You…
John 15:9-17 I have been living in these words for days… wondering about what it means that we are chosen first. And while no metaphor fully works for the call that is placed on our hearts, our lives, by Jesus now, I find myself returning to old stories of being ‘chosen.’ Wondering at how they …