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Picking up from yesterday +++ In the course of this story, Abraham dies. So does Sarah. So does Isaac, and Jacob, and generation after generation. From Abraham to Paul, the only people who didn’t die were Elijah and … nobody. The only people who died and came back to life are… Jesus. The rest of […]

When I was a kid, we’d read John 3:16 this way. “God so loved Jon that he gave his only begotten son that if Jon believed in him, Jon would not perish but have eternal life.” It was a way of personalizing the immensity of God’s love for each of us. But there was a […]

God. How are you? We show up to these conversations, and we talk and complain. We tell you what we want, what’s wrong with what others or you or we are doing. And we almost never ask you how you are doing. Or if there is anything we can get you while we are up. […]

A sense of preparation is what Lent accomplishes. It keeps us from being surprised. And we do that preparation by 1. Choosing a direction. And/or 2. Making a change. Jesus went into the wilderness to pray. God took him there. Forty days to choose away from food, and toward God. We are, as humans, accustomed […]

At once the Spirit sent him out into the wilderness, and he was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals, and angels attended him. What does six weeks feel like? It depends. Six weeks of what? Around the hospital, we sometimes hear measurements of six weeks. Six […]