Every time someone is baptized, every time bread is broken and wine poured, every time a sinner hears, “Your sins are forgiven in Christ,” Pentecost happens again.
06/05/25
They were still praying, trusting, and hoping. Why? Because they knew who was with them and who was for them: the risen Christ.
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06/30/16
Why was Jesus crucified? Not to save victims, but to save sinners.
06/28/16
The authority God gives to men—to you and I as baptized believers in Christ—is to forgive sins, to free them from guilt, to free them from the power of sin.
06/27/16
I am not one of those people who can put together a jigsaw puzzle without using the picture on the box.
06/24/16
The dying words of Jesus were not, “Make it worth it,” but “It is finished.”
06/21/16
Jesus takes that burden away in the “I forgive you and them” and gives us His “light” burden.
06/16/16
There is no pain like the pain of being mistreated by those who, above all others, you expect to love you unconditionally.
06/15/16
What we see in the face of this God is not a loathing expression. We find the face of a compassionate man who knew all about shame himself.
06/14/16
Like any language, the liturgy has syntax—a structure that provides order and intelligibly communicates meaning through all that is said.
06/13/16
A crisis of faith always occurs when we begin to believe that God has betrayed us.
06/13/16
Have you ever played hide and seek with a 2-year-old? News flash: They’re terrible at it.
06/10/16
I became like God’s child David, whom the Lord pardoned of his adultery and murder. I became like Noah, Abraham, Judah, Aaron, Gideon, and so many more wayward children.
06/07/16
I have my list. It may seem strange to you, but, when I think about my own death, I often think in terms of positive failures.
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