Posts from 2025

Today's readings offer us a model of of choosing the God who has chosen us and living fully into that relationship.

In today's gospel, Jesus' listeners are invited into a deeper exploration of anger and the need to address it in our relationships.

Jesus counsels his listeners to ask, seek and knock - not so much so that we get what we want but that we recognize our dependence on God.

Both Jesus and Jonah preached repentance. The people around Jesus wanted a sign, however. Yet he said no further signs would be given.

We are cautioned today to take care about the words we speak to others, God and ourselves - because words matter.

What would public policy based on Matthew 25 look like? Long before Christians were here, the Haudenosaunee showed us.

Jesus' temptations in the desert represent his trying to understand how his people lost their way and how he can align with a path to wholeness.

In his life and ministry, Jesus invited his followers to fololw Isaiah 58's call to be 'repairers of the breach.'

The kind of fasting and worship that God desires is the kiind that sets people free, promotes liberation and has direct impacts for people who are hurting.

In the gospel today, Jesus reminds his followers that going with him on the journey will inevitably cost us something and require sacrifice.

Jesus' followers are encouraged to return to God with their whole hearts and take up prayer, fasting and almsgiving for 40 days.