Posts from April 2025

As ever-emerging spiritual creatures, we cannot contain our selves — the selves God has created us to be.  Coming out as people and as a church from what we have known into a new identity is filled with anxiety and unknowing.  Emerging will take effort and surrendering to “the assurance of things hoped for” even though we cannot yet see what the future holds. Sunday, May…

This account of the last moments of the life of Jesus on the cross is often recognized, but sometimes missed, robbing us of the importance of what is happening.  As Jesus breathes his last breath on the cross, he opens the doorway to God, our father, from that moment forward.  The rending of the temple curtain carries a message for each of us.  The barrier that was once…

Jesus’ words at the Last Supper were shocking to those in attendance.  His words can seem familiar, even comforting to us because we hear these words every time we have communion.  But at the moment of their utterance, they were anything but “usual.”  This week, we enter the scene of that last supper long enough to get a grasp of the shock that would have rippled through…