Tuesday, January 14, 2025
My husband, Mitch, used to lead an “experiential” Bible study for young men. Think “Fight Club” (the movie) meets Jesus, and you get the gist. As the study reached Matthew 14 and the account of Jesus calling Peter to walk on water, Mitch sensed the young men needed an opportunity to “walk in Peter’s shoes.”… Read more
Monday, January 13, 2025
Something never sat quite right with me: Jesus does all of these miracles, teaches about the inclusive kingdom of God, and makes people’s lives better, and the people from his hometown get … angry? In Matthew 13, we hear all about how Jesus was rejected in Nazareth, which was his hometown. In verse 54, they… Read more
Saturday, January 11, 2025
Have you ever done something for so often or so long that it becomes about something else entirely? When we first read of God giving the law to God’s people (the Israelites), it’s in the second book of the Bible, an estimated 1,500 years before Jesus was born. By the time we reach the time… Read more
Friday, January 10, 2025
Miracles are overrated. Do I have your attention? I mean, I get it, the miracles Jesus did were pretty incredible, but the reason I say they’re overrated is because Jesus himself expressed frustration at people’s preoccupation with them. And while he’s talking to folks a long time ago about other groups of folks a long… Read more