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MARK 4:35-41

The storm we read about in the gospel of Mark came suddenly, in the middle of the night, and the disciples found themselves wondering how Jesus could be asleep in the middle of their cris…

2 CORINTHIANS 5:11-21

What does it mean to fear God? Far from telling us that we ought to be afraid of God, the gospel invites us to reflect on what it would mean for Christ’s love to serve as the ord…

MARK 4:26-34

When you become a Christian, you don’t lose your particular culture or identity, but you’re reborn into an entirely new culture and identity, which Jesus calls the “Kingdom of God.” Our m…

MARK 2:23-3:6

The question that comes to us from the gospel today is, What are you providing for your life in terms of nutrition? What are you hungry for? What are you filling your life with, and is i…

COLOSSIANS 3:12-14

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you realize that you don’t have the power to do what you need to do, and you need help? How are we called to respond to these situa…

JOHN 15: 26-27, 16: 5-15

In the season of Pentecost, we celebrate the outpouring of God’s Spirit, and we take time to pause and recognize where the Spirit is advocating for us. 

JOHN 17:1-5

The eternal life that Jesus talks about is more relational than it is transactional, more intimate than simply permanent, more personal than just a principle.

JOHN 15:9-17

Today we consider the joy of being called friends of Jesus.

JOHN 15: 1-8

What does it mean to abide in Jesus like a brach of a vine?

JOHN 10: 11-18

Jesus is the Good Shepherd who knows us by name and teaches us to be good shepherds in our own lives.

LUKE 24:36b-48

Pronouncements on our lives - from within and without - are powerful. What pronouncement are you living by? What if on the loud speaker of our lives we heard God saying, “You are my bel…

JOHN 20:19-31

Now more than ever, we’re asking if we can trust the claims of the world around us. People have been asking these same questions about the story of Jesus’ resurrection for millennia, and…

MARK 16:1-8

The message of Resurrection asks us to think about what we do with the realities of beauty and brokenness in our world. In Christ, God’s response to all of it is to enter in and be affecte…

MARK 11:1-11

When the people of Jerusalem welcomed Jesus into the city, they were probably expecting a military leader who would deliver them from their oppressors. What they got was a king on a donke…

JOHN 12: 20-33

20 Now among those who went up to worship at the festival were some

Greeks. 21 They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and

said to him, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.” 22 Phi…

JOHN 3: 14-21

Jesus sees the venom of this world and of our lives, and he takes it upon himself to rescue us. 

JOHN 2:13-22

Today’s passage in John’s gospel affirms the complexity of our and Jesus’ humanity by giving us a picture of what righteous anger looks like. 

Following Christ doesn’t mean being nice at a…

MARK 8:31-38

The 40 days of Lent come to us with the reminder: we are dust. 

In the gospel passage, we’re faced with the question, “What does it profit you to gain the whole world, but lose your soul?”…

LUKE 4: 1-15

Our practice of fasting during Lent is an invitation to align ourselves with Jesus, who spent 40 days in the wilderness. It all starts with the questions: are you aware that right now, yo…

MARK 9: 2-9

In the story Jesus’ transfiguration, we see Jesus for who he is, and we receive roadmap for our own transformation.