300 words a day

Jesus and his disciples were walking outside the temple in Jerusalem. It was a pretty remarkable building, 400 by 500 yards. It was still under construction, and had been for 50 years. Someone commented on how remarkable it was. “This isn’t going to last,” Jesus said. “It’s going to be more destroyed than it was […]

I went to get some tests last week. Wellness tests. I wanted to check on some areas that I know can be problems. I was laying on my back in the middle of one of them, while a machine was inflating the cuff on one arm and then the other. The person running the test […]

God. We are a sad and fearful people. Not all of us, of course. Some of us some of the time are happy and confident. And we don’t want to be fearful. But all of us know that we will face pain and will face death. And it shapes our thinking. Sometimes we work hard […]

Somewhere out there, under there, is the wreckage of a ship that some people have been thinking about this week. 50 years ago, off Whitefish Point, a ship broke apart, sank, and 29 people died. Seventy-four years ago, or so, my dad was in the Army in Korea. Those who remembered veterans this week, those […]

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 […]