When Jesus talks to the Sadducees about the afterlife, he’s not doing pastoral care. He’s not offering comfort, he’s not teaching us what we should say to grieving people. He’s outlining truth in a way that will silence a particular group that was attacking him. The Sadducees, the people who asked the question, aren’t identified […]

Rich Dixon is serious about kids. +++ Sometimes I wonder if we take Jesus seriously. I recently ran across a quote from C. S. Lewis: Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work. Surprising, perhaps, from a man whose penetrating analysis of Christianity is still studied and quoted […]

One day, some people who were Sadducees came to Jesus with story problem. “Teacher,” they said. “We want to understand how to apply something that Moses taught.” According to an interpretation of the law Moses handed down from God, if a man and woman were married and he died without any children, the man’s brother […]

“I’m afraid that he won’t know me in heaven.” The woman in front of me was shaking as she talked. Their marriage had been good. Her life had been hard. She was clinging to his life even as it was being measured in hours at most. If I had to guess, she had heard the […]

God- It’s so easy to lose track. Of our plans, of our direction, of you. One fall, one fracture, one hospital stay, one cold, two bad nights of sleep and the lists we had and the projects we were working toward get lost. It’s hard to keep our quiet routines as our time is tied […]