Leadership Temptations: Whom Do You Trust?
Learning to trust God unreservedly is the first task (and test) of leadership.
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God’s Persistent Grace
Even when we reject God, he pursues us, reaching out again and again. In this season of Lent, may we receive God’s grace with open hearts.
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By What Authority Are You Living?
How might you respond if someone were to ask, “By what authority are you living?”
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Are You Hiding from God?
Religious people sometimes let their religion serve as a kind of hideout, a place of safety from accountability, maybe even a place to hide from God.
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Empty Water Jars
What is easier to say: Fill the jars with water, or Bring your empty water jars?
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Confronting Our Fears
What keeps you back from serving God fully and freely? In many cases, the answer is fear.
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Holy Week and Work: Reconciliation in the Workplace
There is another dimension of the cross that we sometimes overlook on Good Friday. We see this dimension clearly in Ephesians 2:14-16, where the death of Christ on the cross brings reconciliation not only between people and God but also between alienated people groups.
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Holy Week and Work: Washing Feet or Carrying Boxes?
In many Christian traditions, foot-washing ceremonies provide a way for brothers and sisters in Christ to express their deep commitment to and care for each other. Foot washing can feel almost sacramental for those who give and receive it.
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Holy Week and Work: Work Restored
Because of the cross, the day will come when creation is restored and renewed. In that day, we will experience work as God intended it to be. That is part of our future hope in Christ.
But then something happened to corrupt the goodness of work. Sin happened.
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Holy Week and Work: Encountering God at Work
But today I want to focus on something rarely mentioned among commentators: the centurion encountered God in his work. It’s not particularly unusual for people to meet God in their work. This happens – and should happen – all the time. But what is so striking in the case of the centurion is the kind of work he was doing when he had his divine encounter.
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Holy Week and Work: Remembering Jesus in the Products of Work
Several years ago, while visiting a church on Sunday morning, I saw a striking communion banner. It featured a creative and tasteful weaving together of wheat stalks and bunches of grapes. I appreciated the artistry that went into the design and production of the banner and was glad to have seen it.
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The Twelfth Station: Jesus on the Cross, His Mother, and His Disciple
The basic meaning of Jesus’s statement is clear. He was entrusting care of his mother to one of his most intimate friends and followers. He was making sure that she would be loved and cared for after Jesus’s death. Jesus knew he could trust his beloved follower with such an important responsibility.
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