“Jesus is teaching his disciples. He is teaching us. Where is our focus and what or who is swaying our desires?”
Tag: disciples
Where Would We Go?
“‘Lord, to whom can we go? You have the words of eternal life.’ I once heard a preacher put it this way: ‘WHEN YOU SPEAK, WE COME ALIVE INSIDE.’ Peter knew there was nowhere else to go and no one else to go to. When Jesus speaks, we come alive inside. Peter then made his confession like he did in the other gospels in Caesarea Philippi, ‘You are the Holy One of God (the Christ, the Son of the living God).'”
Watching What Jesus Did
Matthew 9: 9-13, 18-26 I think we’ll talk a little bit about sin this morning. A twenty-seven-year-old minister was assigned to his first church only a short time when he noticed that one of his parishioners, an elderly woman, had missed several Sundays in a row. He decided to see her and find out the…
Everyone Will Know (Holy Thursday)
John 13: 1-17 Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world and to go to the Father. HIS HOUR HAD COME. The devil had already put it into the heart of Judas to betray him. All of this going on under the surface and knowing that the Father had given all…
To the Disciples Particularly
Matthew 5: 1-12 A little boy was listening to a long and tedious sermon from the preacher. Suddenly a red light attached to some wires leading to the sound system caught his eye. Tugging his father’s sleeve, he asked, “Daddy, when that red light up there turns green can we go?” Oh, it’s going to…
Who We Long to Be
Luke 10:25-37 Since I’ve been here, I’ve shared with you two scriptures that exemplify the simplicity of our faith. From Psalm 102 in The Message paraphrase we heard, “God heard the groans of the doomed and opened their death cells.” Today, we heard from Luke 10 to be merciful to the ones who need mercy….
Staying Put
Luke 24: 44-53 Sometimes we do well waiting and sometimes we don’t do so well. One thing that distinguishes the human species from others is that we’re the only animals you’ll find standing in lines. That goes with the old joke. We shouldn’t trust banks with counting our money. If bankers can count, why do…
I Choose Palm Today
Luke 19: 29-40 Either Palm or Passion today. Considering all the predicaments related to the pandemic and all the accounts forwarded to us regarding the war in Europe, perhaps for now, we’ve had enough passion. I choose Palm for today. Palm Sunday. If we do not hear the acclaim and rejoicing from the whole multitude…
We Come Alive Inside
John 6: 63-69 Through this journey in John 6 we’ve come to Jesus’ question to the twelve that remain, “Do you also wish to go away?” The term disciple means learner. For many who followed Jesus, their learning had ended. Whatever encouraged them to follow in the first place was replaced with discouragement, and they…
4 Episodes
I like it when I’m caught by surprise with inspiration. I was catching up in my gospel lesson reading in the Daily Office in the BCP when four episodes in the life of Jesus spoke to me. They follow each other in the eighth chapter of Mark. What I heard were lessons targeted at disciples,…
Psalm 102 in The Message 