WHAT IF GOD WAS ONE OF US?
On a starry night 2000 years ago, God did something miraculous: a child was born. But this was no ordinary child. God himself became one of us. Now let me emphasize what I’ve just said. This was the...
View ArticleWHAT IF WE WERE ONE WITH GOD?
I can’t imagine not being a dad. It is as a famous athlete once said: When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realizing it now—it changes the world, having children. As a parent, I can...
View ArticleOUR SUFFERING IS REAL. BUT SO IS GOD.
In Isaiah 62:1-5, good news comes from God’s own lips. “I will not be silent,” he shouts to his people. “I will not rest. I will vindicate you. You will be a crown of beauty in my hands.” These are...
View ArticleBEING SPIRIT-LED ALONG UNCOMFORTABLE PATHS
What does it mean to be led by the Spirit? For Jesus, it meant allowing God to lead him, no matter how uncomfortable he felt. Filled with the Holy Spirit, Jesus returned to familiar waters. Nazareth...
View ArticleLEARNING TO FIGHT, LIVING WITH LOVE
Before my ordination, I spent my summer at a retirement community in Northern Virginia. My role as chaplain intern involved making daily visitations with its residents. During one visit I met an...
View ArticleTHE ONE THING KEEPING YOU FROM BECOMING TRANSFORMED
What’s keeping you from having a bold, vibrant faith? Our readings provide one answer. God deserves our praise and worship. Why be in church week after week if we didn’t believe this? We do this not...
View ArticleWHERE YOUR MIND WANDERS, THE HEART FOLLOWS
Someone once said that “If you want to know where your heart is, look where your mind goes when it wanders”. What you focus on becomes your reality. It’s fitting that our Lenten readings are well-timed...
View ArticleTHE HEART BEHIND “THE PRODIGAL SON”
Faith and religion are like the brothers we see in Jesus’ parable of the Prodigal Son. Likewise we see ourselves in the story. Compare religion with the “older son” (Luke 15:25-29). There is an inner...
View ArticleHOLY WEEK’S LESSON ON LIFE, DEATH AND LOVE
Last week Monday, a parishioner was kind enough to pick my son up from school. To show our appreciation, we decided to bring “Grandma” a thank-you gift. But when we got to her house, no one was home....
View ArticleLOVE YOUR ENEMY, JUST AS CHRIST LOVES YOU
As part of Jesus’ final message to his friends, he said this… “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another” (John 13:31-35)...
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