Community, Peace, Ecology
Mark 1:4-11 Make your way, the Way of Jesus. Mark’s gospel is so short, you could say it is the gospel of gaps. We start the story with the adult Jesus appearing in the mid-drama of John the Baptist who is calling thousands to repentance. Baptism is described as minimally as Modigliani drew faces. And […]
Rejoice always! When the Bible appears to be ridiculous sometimes its for important reasons.Paul’s command to Thessalonians ‘Rejoice always!’ seems a silly, even offensive, suggestion. When I tell you more about the people Paul wrote to at Thessalonica you will agree with me. This is probably the earliest document, the first to be written in […]
This season of Lent is, in my experience, best a season of true wrestling, searching, deciding, changing. I hope you find what I share today true to this. It begins with a disturbing report on Radio Canada as I was eating my fruit bowl breakfast. Fascinating and yet hugely challenging to my way of life […]
Genesis 22: 1‑14 After these things God tested Abraham. God said to him, “Abraham!” And Abraham said, “Here I am.” God said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains that I shall […]
Genesis 21: 8 21 Sarah’s child grew, and was weaned; and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, playing with her son Isaac. So she said to Abraham, “Cast out this slave woman with her […]
Genesis 1:1 – 2:4 In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters. Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. And God saw […]
Acts 2: 1 21 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested […]
John 10: 1-10 Jesus said, “Very truly, I tell you, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold by the gate but climbs in by another way is a thief and a bandit. The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep […]
Acts 2: 14 & 36 41 Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and addressed the crowd, “Let the entire house of Israel know with certainty that God has made him both Lord and Messiah, this Jesus whom you crucified.” Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to […]
John 20: 19 31 It was late that Sunday evening, and the disciples were gathered together behind locked doors, because they were afraid of the Jewish authorities. Then Jesus came and stood among them. “Peace be with you,” he said. After saying this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples were filled […]