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As much as we work to understand and explain what Jesus said, we need to be honest: sometimes he wasn’t clear. At times his obfuscation, his ambiguity was purposeful. He even says that he is speaking obscurely at times. However, in the middle of a fairly clear sermon, when he seems to be trying to […]

We are too serious. Okay, so maybe some of us laugh sometimes. And some of us laugh all the time. And some of us frown most of the time. But most of the time most people have some amount of laughter. Until we pick up the Bible, that is. Then we get serious. Too serious. […]

God. This is the first Sunday in Lent. And some of us are aware, even more than at New Years, of how hesitant we are about our commitments. Hesitant is a nice way to say it. We thought about committing to something in order to draw closer to you. To giving up something distracting. To […]

I started to write about judging but want to write without being judgmental. I sit here creating examples of extreme finickiness and then think, “But isn’t that being judgmental, reflecting my own bias against finickiness?” And I am convicted. And I save the draft and start over. Why? Because Jesus says the standard that I […]

I have no clue what will happen today. I just wanted you to know that. I spent part of one Sunday afternoon at a funeral for a woman who had been married for 65 years, who had Alzheimer’s. The pastor started his message with “None of us planned to be here today.” What was interesting […]