Blessing When the World Is Ending by Jan RichardsonIf poetry is unfamiliar to you, start slowly.  Pause with the punctuation (commas and periods in this case) rather than line breaks.  Read aloud (or ...  Read More

A New Kingdom Jesus' life and ministry ushers in a new aspect of the Kingdom of God, where "The Word became flesh and blood and moved into the neighborhood (John 1:14 MSG).  God is ever-present and am...  Read More

How are we led astray? Beginning in Mark 13: 3, Peter, James, John, and Andrew are sitting with Jesus on the Mount of Olives.  Jesus warns them, his closest friends, not to be led astray.  Led astray...  Read More

What did the temple look like in Jesus' time?  In Mark 13, the disciples are admiring the temple when Jesus begins to disrupt their thinking, discussing the destruction of the this earthly building as...  Read More

Does shame about your spiritual poverty prevent you from giving your whole life to Christ?...  Read More

Jesus said to them, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” And they marveled at him. – Mark 12:17 Jesus gave this answer in response to a question abou...  Read More

But those tenants said to one another, “This is the heir. Come let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.” (Mark 12:7)...  Read More

And they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of thos...  Read More