In the Beatitudes, Jesus offers formulas for what constitutes blessedness—not good fortune or prosperity or personal achievement, but rather blessed states that we would not typically associate with being blessed. Given our culture’s obsessions with wealth and status, what does it mean for us to hear the people that Jesus considers blessed? Matthew 5:1-12 … [Read more…]
Responses to the new president have been all over the board – from all those celebrating his inauguration and expectant for the promised change to come – to all those who have marched and protested who are fearful about the prospects of that very same change – to all those who don’t know what to … [Read more…]
Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan, to be baptized by him. 14 John would have prevented him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?” 15 But Jesus answered him, “Let it be so now; for it is proper for us in this way to fulfill all … [Read more…]