Leadership Temptations: What Price Are You Willing To Pay?
Jesus willingly pays the highest price possible.
Read PostLeadership Temptations: How Will You Lead?
In our passion to do good in the world, it’s easy for the tempter to distract us by focusing on the ends of our work in order to justify unjustifiable means.
Read PostJoy to the World . . . in Lent?
As Jesus entered Jerusalem on the day we know as Palm Sunday, his disciples celebrated the coming of their king with loud praise to God.
Read PostJesus as a Big Giant Spoon
The Jesus who stirs things up in a major way, therefore, is rather like a big giant spoon.
Read PostWhat’s Jesus’s Line?
In the season of Lent we have the opportunity to ask in a fresh way, “Who is Jesus?”
Read PostBearing the Weight of the Cross
Simon of Cyrene gives us the lesson of God’s providence and participation in painful things that reveal God’s grace.
Read PostOh, Thomas!
Thomas and others remind us that we can have expectations—but even if they are fulfilled exactly as we hoped, there will always be so much more.
Read PostNot My Will But Yours Be Done
As he prayed on the night before his crucifixion, Jesus asked his Heavenly Father to “remove this cup.”
Read PostThe Shocking Prayer of Jesus
Jesus was asking for a way to avoid the suffering and sacrifice of the cross.
Read PostThe Anguish of Jesus
The fact that Jesus suffered truly and painfully means that he understands us and our suffering.
Read PostJesus Reclaims Our Brokenness
Jesus takes our failures and losses and uses, reclaiming them for good.
Read PostAn Awkward and Teachable Moment
The challenge of Jesus is for us too. Are we willing to be humble servants, just like our Master?
Read PostGod So Loved the World
God the Father loves us enough to keep speaking Jesus, the eternal Word, into our pain and suffering.
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