Apprentice 2 Jesus

  • Jesus doesn’t understand the gospel

    It is appalling how much Jesus just doesn’t get the gospel! Honestly! He gets asked by a young lawyer what it takes to have eternal life, which is an American evangelical’s dream question. You LIVE for this stuff! It’s teed up! Read more

  • What Jesus doesn’t say

    I continue to walk in wonder as I read through the Gospel of Luke. I’ve been on this journey with Jesus for decades and the longer I walk with him, the more I am in awe of the Kingdom of God. It is a learning process still. And, it is an unlearning process. In all… Read more

  • Christ the King Sunday

    The liturgical year is almost over for those who worship in many churches such as the Anglican Church or Roman Catholic Church. The end of that year is Christ the King Sunday in the Anglican Church. Read more

  • A Thanksgiving Prayer

    Accept, O Lord, our thanks and praise for all that you have done for us. We thank you for the splendor of the whole creation, for the beauty of this world, for the wonder of life, and for the mystery of love. We thank you for the blessing of family and friends, and for the… Read more

  • The true foolishness of Christianity

    Rachel Held Evans is quoted by Starlette Thomas’s new book, Take Me to the Water, about the oddity of baptism. It marks just how odd Christianity truly is. Read more

  • The “new right” and antisemitism

    This column by David French needs to be printed off and posted on bulletin boards and refrigerators. Let me begin by saying, “YES! Antisemitism exists on the left as well.” And I am truly exhausted with people trying to defend slogans that truly mean one thing and someone else saying it “means another thing.” We’ll… Read more

  • The Spirit is at work because WE are there

    We are called to be people who stand at the place of pain — in the cancer ward, at the asylum-seeker’s court hearing, by the graveyard full of memorials to small children or to families whose homes have been bombed by ward — so as to be those within whose own painful perplexity the Holy… Read more

  • The Holy Spirit grieves

    We tend to want to be triumphant in all we do. We can look at a horrible situation and then blindly declare with a cheerful voice: “God is in control!” Like the cheeriness in our voice will take away the sting of the situation. Read more

  • Our great vocation

    We don’t “just pray.” We don’t throw up our hands in a situation and say, “Well, all we can do now is pray.” Prayer is our vocation. And Paul, in Romans 8:22-27, let’s us know that our prayer is not just for us. It is for the world. If we will get out of our… Read more

  • How to “solve” the Middle East dilemma

    If the article is not behind a paywall, this is worth a read. CLICK HERE. There isn’t a good way through all of this. I hardly comment on social media because it’s just nigh impossible. I know I will put this out on social media, but I take that risk for the sake of trying… Read more