We can bring our troubles, griefs, sorrows, and sins to Jesus, who meets us smack dab in the middle of our messy mob.
01/21/26
Confession isn’t a detour in the liturgy. It’s the doorway.
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01/20/26
American religion did not become optional because the gospel failed. It became optional because religion slowly redefined itself around usefulness.
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11/21/21
The oddness of this moment, at the beginning of Advent, is God’s way of saying, “The reason I’m here...”
11/15/21
Look the judge in the eye and pin your sin on Jesus, the divine judge’s son. Jesus knows you can’t do it, so he trades places with you and pits himself against God’s righteous demands.
11/14/21
Trust in the midst of trouble. That is what our Lord calls us to experience today.
11/13/21
The church is the only place God promises to lift us out of ourselves not in order to become more like God but so that we may finally be freed from our obsession with becoming little gods.
11/11/21
We won’t use the right words, but the Holy Spirit is interceding with and for us, as we pray.
11/10/21
Fourteen years ago, drowning in the muck of dark despair, in the middle of a life gone terribly wrong, I wrote in my journal, "I wonder how, once this is all over, how I’ll be, how I’ll turn out…” Now I know.
11/06/21
Everywhere we look, there is suffering. But Jesus is not calling us to look. He is calling us to listen.
11/04/21
Jesus meets us in our life of lies, in our falsehoods, in the untruth of our being, and in the company, we create to cover up our nakedness.
11/03/21
Grace and mercy are a powerful act of the Almighty God. God alone can grant forgiveness and restoration, salvation from the sorrow of this world.
11/01/21
What do Habakkuk and Israel have? Nothing but the word of God. Nothing but the promise of God. Nothing but God himself.
10/30/21
The emphasis for All Saints Sunday is not on the saints, but the Sanctifier, Jesus Christ.
10/30/21
In his death, Jesus has done the ultimate act of charity. He has given his life for all.
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