Apprentice 2 Jesus

  • Palm Sunday — Follow the King

    Palm Sunday will lead us into Holy Week. In the exuberance of Palm Sunday to make Jesus King, he calls us into the depths of what that means to follow him. Mark 1:1-11 Are we truly ready to follow him? Read more

  • Encountering the possibility of what IS to come

    We declare to you what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the word of life— 2 this life was revealed, and we have seen it and testify to it and declare to you the eternal life that… Read more

  • The vision of hope is grounded in love

    7 Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. (1 John 4:7-8, NRSVue) I want to turn from exhaustion to hope. That is the way of love. Read more

  • Victory isn’t through the sword

    John 12:20-36 is our Gospel for the Fifth Sunday in Lent. The hour for Jesus’ suffering is upon him. He could ask to be delivered from this hour, but he knows this is why he came. What lies ahead is necessary and when Jesus is finished, the Father is glorified and the kingdoms of this… Read more

  • The spiritual feast of the Word of God

    I have been slow on my book reading/listening this year. Very slow. And they’ve all been re-reads/listens. Read more

  • A vision of hope

    If there is any word that best describes my feeling in this election year it’s this: Exhaustion Read more

  • Dealing with our current American Church culture

    “Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease. Against… Read more

  • We need a new “Confessing Church”

    There are times of decision and we’ve been in a decade of choice… and somehow still refuse to make the one away from worldly power. Still, there are many who realize the moment in which we live and maybe there is a ripple of movement for a new “Confessing Church” of some sort. “If you… Read more

  • Jesus won’t be king like you want

    15 Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself. (Jn. 6:15, NIV) Read more

  • It is time for a new “Confessing Church”

    “Christianity stands or falls with its revolutionary protest against violence, arbitrariness, and pride of power and with its defense for the weak… Christianity has adjusted itself much too easily to the worship of power. It should give much more offense, more shock to the world than it is doing. Christianity should take a much more… Read more