“When would you like to be relieved of your guilt and shame? Your fear and anxiety? Tomorrow? WHY NOT NOW? WHY NOT TODAY?”
Tag: Luke 13
They Deserve It
“God’s kindness and mercy are far ahead of our mere human, prejudicial understanding of who deserves what.”
There Are No Dead Ends
“It was Jerusalem that needed to turn around and go back the way it came. That’s what the prophets called Jerusalem to do, and that’s what Jerusalem refused to do.”
Why Not Now?
Luke 13: 10-17 When Jesus saw her. . . She caught Jesus’ attention. This story always reminds me of the days I worked at a department store while I attended college. I worked an evening shift, and there was a woman who came in the store from the transit bus stop just outside the door….
They Deserve It!
Luke 13: 1-9 They came to Jesus and, in effect, asked him, “Did you see what Pilate did?” Jesus discerned what they said to really mean those Galileans were bad people. A woman and her grandmother – a very forgiving and religious soul – were sitting on their porch discussing a member of the family….
A Dead End?
Luke 13: 31-35 From a blogpost I wrote in February of 2015: “I’ve thought about erasing my master of divinity degree from my resume. Perhaps, by so doing, I’d look less educated, more hirable and more normal. But the thought comes to me regularly, I’ll never be normal.” That was a difficult time in our lives. We left the…
Change
I’ve thought about erasing my master’s degree in divinity from my resume. Perhaps, by so doing, I’d look less educated, hirable and more normal. Then the thought comes to me regularly, I’ll never be normal. Wednesday night, April and I went to a life group at a nearby church. It was church, nothing to beat…
Psalm 102 in The Message 