(This is a guest post from Everett Reiss.) “All year we’re kind of like puffed up leavened bread, but passover is a time for us to become like stripped down matzah bread,” said the rabbi at a small group meeting at a Jewish community center in Philadelphia. I recently started attending on Thursday nights. I […]

It’s dinner time and no one had washed their feet. Jesus was near the end of the pre-crucifixion part of his life. In a few hours he would face horrors most Americans can’t imagine and many Jesus-followers in the rest of the world have little trouble imagining. Thirteen people are gathered in the room to […]

A friend of mine will have an awful day today. I talked with her last night, passing on some counsel from a mutual friend.  As I said things, they matched perfectly with other things about her situation that she knew but didn’t understand, things I didn’t know about at all.  She finished the conversation encouraged. […]

(This repost is from September 29, 2009. I will be back tomorrow with new posts.) Two disciples did exactly what Jesus asked them to do. A crowd guided him to Jerusalem. People in the city wondered who he was, wondered what all the noise was. In one short story, we have lots of pictures of […]

(Originally posted on February 20, 2009) [Matthew 6:7-8] Sometimes I know exactly what our kids need. I can look ahead and know that they will be in that situation and will need that solution. I know it. But I may not tell them. Sometimes they decide to ask ahead of time. We can take care […]