“The chief priests and the scribes were looking for a way to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.” Later in this chapter we read that Judas Iscariot went to these...

God’s new covenant is endlessly exciting. It is dripping with good news. It has consequences for our bodies and beings. And it’s a promise we cannot reciprocate. As we keep score...

Here we have one of those moments in the Gospels where we get a partial glimpse of the Trinity at work. Jesus and God are separate but connected. There is clear...

Wheat has so much to teach us. My spouse has three strands of wheat tattooed on his forearm. For him, it captures the idea of shalom, God’s reign of peace, where...

We are in the days of our flesh. We are alive, in bodies, experiencing the world. How awesome to contemplate the glory of God having days of flesh as well! Jesus...

In Lent, there is an opportunity to dust off the soul, declutter the spirit. There is dignity in doing the spring cleaning of our very being. We live in a society...

Twice in seven verses the psalmist’s plea to God is, “Wash me.” Isn’t this, indeed, what forgiveness feels like? I think about a long, warm shower after a run in the...

God is God, and we are not. God makes promises, and we break them. We do things that break God’s trust. Yet God keeps coming back to us. God sees us...

John 3:16 was the first Bible verse that I ever memorized. I remember as a child in Sunday school reciting those words over and over, “For God so loved the world...

I once took a group of fourth- and fifth-graders to an observatory to look at stars and learn about constellations. We talked about how there is so much we can learn...