Posts from April 2022

April 28, 2022 “I will not believe until I see him and touch him with my own eyes and hands and feel the real and resurrected Christ for myself,” Thomas tells the disciples when they share with him the unbelievable news that they have seen the Lord alive again after he was dead and buried.  Thomas refuses to believe until it becomes real for him. Until he…

April 21, 2022 “Why do you look for the living among the dead?” the angels ask the women at the tomb on Easter morning. They tell them that Jesus is not in the tomb, but alive. Hope is not gone but is expanding and growing and refuses to be uprooted by death and violence and rejection. After all, this is not death’s story, this is God’s story and…

April 7, 2022Time is money.I spent time.I wasted time.I just don’t have time for that. These phrases are common in our world. We experience time as a scarce resource that we only have so much of – and in some ways this is true. After all, at some point we will die – a fact…

March 31, 2022 Last Sunday we dwelled in the gospel reading (Luke 15) together, listening closely and trusting that God was speaking to us through scripture. As we shared the words and phrases that stood out to us in the text, a few of them that came to mind centered on the actions of the father. When asked to give the younger son inheritance, he does. He runs to meet the…

March 24, 2022 This week I want to offer a few ways our gospel reading from last Sunday, Luke 13:1-9, particularly Jesus’ parable about the fig tree that hasn’t produced fruit in three years and the gardener’s intercession to tend to it and cultivate it for another year before it is chopped down, speaks to this moment in which we find ourselves. As a…

March 17, 2022 Jesus gets a warning (or is it a threat? or both?) that Herod is out to kill him. In the face of violence and hatred, Jesus practices, proclaims, and lives empathy and compassion – the way of the cross that reveals true power through weakness and self-sacrifical love (Luke 13:31-35). But Pastor Drew, when we see evil at work so clearly in the world in…

March 10, 2022 As we begin this Lenten season with the story of Jesus in the wilderness after his baptism (Luke 4:1-13), it isn’t lost on me that we’re also hitting the two-year mark since COVID-19 was officially announced a pandemic and the world turned. In some ways, it feels like these last two years have been one long Lenten season, one long set of months…