Lenten Reflections
Go! for Lent: Mark 14:42
Betrayal is a breakdown in trust. In my experience it represents the worst kind of pain. I think of three particular instances in my life in which I have felt betrayed. All three of these instances changed my life and left their own individual scars that caused me to be more cautious in my steps […]
Go! for Lent: Acts 22:10
In today’s scripture passage, Paul gives one of his accounts of his encounter with Jesus. He was on his way to Damascus when a heavenly light shone on him. He fell to the ground and heard Jesus calling him. It’s a dramatic moment. “Saul,” Jesus says, “why are you persecuting me?” It is striking that […]
Go! for Lent: Matthew 26:18
Jesús dijo, Vayan a la cuidad, a casa de cierto hombre, y díganle: El maestro dice: mi hora está próxima; en tu casa celebraré la Pascua con mis discípulos. Mateo 26, 18 “Vayan”. “Vayan a la ciudad.” “Vayan a la cuidad, a la casa de cierto hombre.” “Vayan a la ciudad, a la casa […]
Go! for Lent: Matthew 26:18
“Go.” “Go into the city.” “Go into the city to a certain man.” Go into the city to a certain man, and say.” Jesus sent two of his disciples into the city with clear instructions to seek a certain man that goes un-named but who both Jesus and the disciples knew. The purpose was to […]
Go! for Lent: John 14:2-3
Each Holy Week, as I read the scriptures leading to Gethsemane, the Last Supper, and inevitably the cross, I am aware of Jesus’ care for those who have been with him along the way: The disciples who left everything, the women who learned and traveled with him, and the many who joined him as he […]
Go! for Lent: Luke 10:25-37
The parable of the Good Samaritan is surely one of Jesus’ Top 10. People who know nothing of Christianity still recognize the story: the three religious leaders, each of whom encounters the wounded man on the Jericho Road; the priest and the Levite who walk on by; the Samaritan who takes pity, draws near, bandages […]
Go! for Lent: John 16:28
One of the gifts of pondering my discipleship as part of the Jesus Movement is the opportunity to reflect on the ways in which I move in Jesus’ name. To whom do I go and why? Might it be to one in the margins who seeks friendship. Might it be to the imprisoned who need […]
Go! for Lent: John 16:7
“It is good for me to go away.” We so often want Jesus to stay with us, right here and now. We are comfortable in familiar places with the familiar people, but Jesus says, “I must go away so that the Holy Spirit can come.” He must go away so we can be sent. Rob […]
Go! for Lent John 14:3
This is Jesus’ promise to those eleven disciples sitting at the supper table with Him two thousand years ago. Jesus is telling them that they can count on Him, coming back and taking them into Himself so that they would be wherever he will be. Their lives, works and ministries from them on were years […]
Go! for Lent: Genesis 12:1-10
God’s call to Abram is about as clear of a passage about going as there can be. God says, “get up! Leave! Go where I send you!” There is great physical displacement in this story. But, there is also more. I began serving as a missionary for the Episcopal Church in August 2013 through the […]