John 11:32-44 I usually start with the ritual as I approach All Saints Sunday, so precious is it to me and to so many. I begin by imagining the candles lit, one after another after another. With the names spoken and the bell tolled, doubled this time through for last year we could not do …
Month: October 2021
Abiding in Jesus, Discerning Truth
John 8:31-36 Have you ever had a harder time discerning ‘truth’ than you are having today? Whether it is because leaders appear to no longer have a commitment to speaking anything near unbiased ‘truth’ or ‘truth’ itself is simply so difficult to discern against the seemingly constantly changing landscape which makes up our world, ‘truth’ …
“My Teacher, Let Me See Again…”
Mark 10:46-52 “My teacher, let me see again.” And then he did. Here is what I know of being blind, for I have seen it to be so in those I have known and loved. When the gift of sight is taken away, other senses compensate as much as they can so that the one …
Where the Old Measures Don’t Matter…
Mark 10:35-45 The other disciples don’t really ‘get it’ either, of course. If they did, they wouldn’t be angry with these two brothers now. Indeed, if they had any deep sense of what mattered most, it seems to me they would instead be puzzled by the request to sit at Jesus’ right and left hand …
An Invitation to Taste Eternity
Mark 10:17-31 It is theoretically possible, I suppose, to live a ‘flawless’ life and still miss the point of it all. Or to think one has, as seems to be the case in the conversation that plays out between Jesus and the one who catches up with him here at this point in Mark’s Gospel. …