Are Are We There Yet?The kingdom of God is like a man who takes up knitting in his retirement years. Ed Mosley, an 86-year-old resident of the Atlanta Georgia Dogwood Forest assisted living facility learned to knit and purl in his golden years. With an introductory loom and instructions given to him by his granddaughter, the retired engineer taught himself to make…
Today, we continue on our Lenten series to take on love based on Jesus’ teaching from the Sermon on the Mount. I invite you to take on love for hypocrites. Often, we think of hypocrisy in terms of a someone else. Someone who has hurt you. Someone who has betrayed you. We can imagine someone who has said one thing and done…
After his baptism, Jesus was driven into the desert for forty days and forty nights. Some gospels focus on that time as a time of temptation, others as a time of silence, others as time with God. The Gospel of Mark notes “Jesus was with wild animals and cared for by angels.” During those days of preparation, we are reminded of our…