Palm Sunday and the triumphal entry into Jerusalem.

Palm Sunday and the triumphal entry into Jerusalem.

Jesus’ entry is really a mockery of the way powerful emperors and kings did things. They would take over a whole city, requisition the best horses and chariot for the spectacle, insist on the best food and the best wine as they were received by the local leaders. All...
Healing of the man born blind John 9

Healing of the man born blind John 9

It’s the same pattern we saw in John 4 with the Samaritan woman at the well. The unexpected Jesus encounter is real and deeply life-changing in a beautiful way. At the beginning of the chapter the man is physically healed. Jesus doesn’t get drawn into the question,...
What are we being invited to be born into?

What are we being invited to be born into?

In John 3:1-17 there is a long conversation between Nicodemus, a religious leader, and Jesus. Nic comes at night: a) because he has a day job and can’t come then, and b) symbolically he is in the dark about Jesus – he’s glimpsed something of the Light of the world,...
Love is at the heart of everything

Love is at the heart of everything

I Corinthians 13 and doing a personal check-in with the God of deep love. For the confession of sins on Sunday we did this reflective check-in, as a way of being more aware of what is getting in the way of us being more loving, and what we might be invited to let go...
Trusting that peace is real, even in a place of pain.

Trusting that peace is real, even in a place of pain.

The Peaceable Kingdom.’ Painting by Edward Hicks The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead them. Isaiah 11:6 American Quaker, Edward Hicks, painted this...
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