Angels and the supernatural
October 21, 2021
Our modern minds often easily dismiss anything beyond our five senses. But is there more to reality than what we see, hear, taste, smell, and touch? Is there a spiritual world?
The most crucial question in the Bible
October 11, 2021
The Messianic question is the turning point in the Gospel of Mark. Deacon John digs into the implications of answers to this question.
The problem with sorrow
October 1, 2021
Have you ever turned on yourself for feeling bad? What does the incarnation mean for our human-ness? What liberation does it provide?
Jesus‘s ancestors: Murderers, Cheats, Prostitues and Adulterers
September 13, 2021
...And yet, God still used them and God still uses us.
This saying is hard, who can accept it?
August 30, 2021
A shocking Gospel reading. "Eat my body." Really? This shocking passage begs a profound question about how we encounter Jesus.
“If it’s just a symbol, to hell with it” - Flannery O’Connor
July 28, 2021
We are all very hungry. What is this food we can not get anywhere else?
The “professionally wise” versus children
July 27, 2021
Who am I that I would do these grand calls from God that we hear of in the bible?
Isn't that for the clergy? They're the professionals aren't they!
The outcasts of the outcasts
July 19, 2021
Imagine having to tell everyone you encounter throughout the day, "STAY AWAY!"
If we are good and work hard we will be liked and loved and be successful… Right?
July 15, 2021
Our virtues and our broken parts meet our faith. What is God's relationship with all of these? What is God's relationship with our secrets?
“That’s very nice, but it doesn’t have much to do with me”
July 7, 2021
Are we actually chosen? Are we sent? Do these seemingly dated biblical stories only have relevance in the past and not the present?
