We call it Palm Sunday because maybe they were palm branches that were thrown into the road in front of him as he approached the city-a...

28 After Jesus had said this, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. 29 When he drew near to Beth′phage and Bethany, at the mount that...

There was a place called Bethany. And like Boring, Oregon or Greasy, Oklahoma, Sleepy Eye, Minnesota or Cranky Corner, Louisiana -- real...

John 12:1-8 12 Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Laz′arus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. 2 There they...

Parables are curious things… That’s what I said last week when we read the Parable of the Unproductive Fig Tree . I also said that the...

Luke 15:1-3, 11-32 15 Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him. 2 And the Pharisees and the scribes were...

In his beautiful book of narrative theology, In the Shelter: Finding Welcome in the Here and Now , poet and healer Pádraig Ó Tuama...

Luke 13:1-9 13 At that very time there were some present who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their...

At that very hour some Pharisees came and said to [Jesus], “Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you.” He said to them, “Go and...

Luke 13:31-35 31 At that very hour some Pharisees came, and said to him, “Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you.” 32 And Jesus...

In many cultures there is an ancient custom of giving a tenth of each year's income to some holy use. For Christians, to observe the...

Luke 4:1-13 4 And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit 2 for forty days in the wilderness,...

I was officiating at a funeral a while back. I was working then with a funeral home I don't work with all that often, and somehow this...

Luke 9:28-43 28 Now about eight days after these sayings he took with him Peter and John and James, and went up on the mountain to pray....

Sometimes we think we are turning the other cheek, when in essence we are not. An old Chinese proverb says, "If your enemy wrongs you,...

Luke 6:27-38 27 “But I say to you that hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 28 bless those who curse you, pray for...

…Whenever I hear the nature of God portrayed like an equation, something that can be manipulated towards a result—“solve for X”—I get my...

Luke 6:17-26 17 And he came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of...

Luke 5:1-11 5 Then one day while Jesus was standing beside the lake of Gennesaret, (that is the Sea of Galilee), and the crowd was...

A Reflection for THE FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY… You know the Tune… Sing it with me now…. 1 I will make you fishers of men, Fishers of...