Psalm 72 says - "Give insight of justice to the king, wisdom to distinguish right from wrong to his son -- that he might judge your people fairly, the poverty-stricken with vision of the just. Let mountains lift up peace for the people and the valleys flower with virtue. May he bring justice to the […]
It is amazing to me how Jesus is being used to justify the exact behaviors he preached so vociferously against. The one who declared that loving our neighbors as ourselves is God's very heartbeat is being used to justify hatred of the most vulnerable. The one who pushed the religious elite of his day to […]
And he is in the face of your neighbor, in the cries of the poor. In the bellies of hungry children, in the prisoner, the sick, the naked, the lost, the lonely, your enemy. Happy Easter, friends. He is risen. Jesus is on the loose. And you have one job -- go find him. And […]
Today is Good Friday, the day we remember Jesus and his crucifixion. Scottish preacher Robert Murray M'Cheyne speaks of the darkness of it all: He was without any comforts of God--no feeling that God loved him-- no feeling that God pitied him--no feeling that God supported him. God was his sun before--now that sun became […]
Today is Maundy Thursday - a reminder in the Christian calendar of the night Jesus served the Passover meal to his rag tag group of disciples, including the great betrayer, Judas, and the great denier, Peter. He served them the bread, poured them the wine and said -- oh so cryptically -- this is my […]
