Another ordinary day?

Another ordinary day?

As we follow the journeys of the disciples as they follow Jesus, we realize quickly we are much like them. Like them, we live in physical bodies in a physical world. We know how things operate, how to make our way in the world (more or less), how to interact with...
You’ve got mail!

You’ve got mail!

Here’s what we know: we are the Body of Christ, we are separated from our old life through our baptism into Jesus, and raised up to a New Life, everything old is no more and all things have been made new, Jesus was God in the flesh, the Divine on earth among men...
A PD re-telling of the return of the prodigal*

A PD re-telling of the return of the prodigal*

One might think that a cascading of prophetic Scriptural fulfillments would make Scripture aficionados jubilant. But one might also be wrong. Terribly wrong in fact. The various groups of synagogue leadership (those most familiar with those prophecies) were the most...
What’s the Lord speaking to you today?”*

What’s the Lord speaking to you today?”*

Some time ago, I heard of an organization with the motto, ‘Always Learning.’ That’s the case for children, certainly, in their minute-by-minute discovery of the world of people and things around them. For them, life is a whirlwind of things new and delightful (and,...
No place like home

No place like home

Having a lot of time on your hands (as I’ve had lately) to ponder life’s deeper things brings up some unusual material. For example, have you ever thought of the perversity of experiencing something so incredibly amazing/beautiful/heartwarming, that you never wanted...