In a few weeks, we’ll celebrate Pentecost Sunday. It’s the day in the church calendar devoted to remembering the arrival of the Holy Spirit. Jesus promised a helper to us and to him. Someone to remind us of everything that he (Jesus) taught. Someone whose name is comforter. It’s interesting that when we’re working so […]

Yesterday, the fourth Sunday of Easter, had several readings about Jesus being the Good Shepherd. At the end of one of them, where John reports the words of Jesus, there is the phrase The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. […]

God. We wonder all the time why things happen. Mostly, we wonder why bad things happen. Good things like flowers happen, and we are glad. We seldom wonder what we did to deserve them. We often think we worked to earn them. But bad things, like pandemics and accidents and heart illness and cancer and […]

Time to finish up our story of the couple on the road. +++ They had hospitality with a stranger. We have no idea where they invited him. If it was their home, remember they had been gone. But they were more concerned with the safety of their new friend on the sometimes wild roads of […]

We talked on Tuesday about the couple on the road. And the fact that they had honest uncertainty. Today continues that story. +++ They had willing conversation. Jesus joined them while they were walking. They didn’t know it was Jesus, of course. That would ruin the story. But they did know that this was someone […]