Four Who Carried Me To Jesus
“Then some people came, bringing to Jesus a paralyzed man, carried by four of them.” –Mark 2:3 In his widely shared essay, “Pilgrimage to Nonviolence,” Martin Luther King, Jr., acknowledged the limits he had once perceived in the gospel’s message of liberation. Key teachings in Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount were only effective, King had[…]
Divine Image-ination
“The leaders said back to Jesus, “What sign are you going to show us, since you’re doing these things?” Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple, and I’ll raise it back up in three days.” But Jesus was talking about the temple of his body.” –John 2:18-19, 21 Jesus comes to the great Temple in Jerusalem at[…]
Surprised by Forgiveness
“How’d lunch go?” That was what one of our folks wanted to ask Simon the Pharisee, host of the social gathering Jesus is invited to in Luke 7:36-50. What a great question! Simon’s life has turned upside down in a rush of God’s for-giving power. Grace has been realized in the deep humanity of a[…]
