The head honchos of the Jews—that would be the Sanhedrin—didn’t have the authority to actually carry out a death sentence once they had condemned someone to death. So this second trial of Jesus.....
I learned that gardening can be both an ecstasy and an agony.
I struggle with anger. I do not need professional counseling or incarceration. I am not actively destroying property or abusing people. I simply struggle. I grew up with a father who conditioned me...
In Mark 8, Jesus uses the imagery of crucifixion to call people to follow him sacrificially. If they want to experience the...
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John is an attorney who grew up working in his father’s hardware store. He says it prepared him to practice law. Because in customer service, he says, he learned to "address the problem...
Dear Friends, During the month of August, I’ll be on vacation with my family, and then I'll take a few days for...
Mark 2:1-12 paints a powerful picture of how you and I can care for the people in our lives who are suffering...
"Listen, Janet," Richard said in frustration, "this report is not acceptable. You need to redo it and have it on my desk...
Everything we do is marked by the steady march of time. Seconds lead to minutes to hours to days to weeks to...
"Follow me, and I will make you fishers of people." Matthew 4:19 "He also said, 'The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, and would sleep and...
And He said to them, "Come away by yourselves to a lonely place and rest for a while."
A certain major airline employs it. So do the Container Store and people and companies ranging from an NBA coach to the...
Work and workers are everywhere in the Gospel of Mark.
God’s full presence in the world in the person of the man Jesus is news, astonishing news.
Jesus himself comes to John to be baptized, as if to declare that he is the one John has been proclaiming.
Before Jesus can even begin his work of proclaiming the good news, God’s Spirit drives him into the wilderness to be tempted by Satan.
