The “further up and further in” we go, the table keeps getting bigger, the guest list keeps getting longer, and the grace keeps on flowing.
10/27/26
Christianity does not locate freedom in radical autonomy. It does not tell either men or women that happiness consists in escaping obligations arising from relationships we did not entirely choose.
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10/26/26
Jesus never promised me a World Series championship. He never promised that my children would always succeed or that life would go according to plan. He promised something better.
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04/09/21
The cross is not some mystic metaphor for the change we must undergo before our self-realization, but the earth-shattering event that changed the course of eternity.
04/08/21
We will always need comfort until the reign of God, his kingdom, comes in full with Christ’s return, and our suffering and the sin that causes it is no more.
04/07/21
You have this Shepherd who knows your voice, your cry, your incessant baaing.
04/06/21
Jesus offers to the anxious soul the one thing it ironically wants: certainty of the good.
04/05/21
God loves you no matter what. Loves you no matter how many times you have screwed up. Loves you to death, he does.
04/04/21
The promise you will make, which brings about the presence of Christ and creates rejoicing, is the peace Jesus brought to the disciples that night behind locked doors.
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04/04/21
In the next three weeks, Saint John will explore some of the implications of the resurrection, especially for Christians as they consider how to live in the present and what is in store for us in the future.
04/04/21
God has created perfectly. God is in the house and all is right with the world!
04/03/21
Tomorrow Jesus will laugh his way out of the tomb, spit in the face of death, and kick the devil in the throat as he dances to the clapping glee of angelic masses. But today he just rests.
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04/02/21
You can’t bear your own sins, to say nothing of getting rid of them.
04/01/21
Repentance means to turn or change your mind. It is not a turn from sin to righteousness. It is a turn from sin to the righteous Son of God who has defeated all sin.
03/31/21
Good Friday encompasses the silence of God, even as it focuses on our salvation in the cross of Christ.
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