“Take him!  He’s yours to crucify.” Our church’s Maundy Thursday Cantata was this evening, and our Choir was outstanding.  Soloists, Narrator, the Jazz Trio, lighting, everything — excellence beyond belief. But one line completely nailed me and will haunt me.…

Maybe I should title this “Ash Wednesday: Six Weeks Later.” We’re almost finished with The Forty Days of Preparation for Easter. Beyond the perhaps painful question of  “How prepared are you?” let’s get to “What has helped you this year?”…

“And then there’s that cross people can’t see by looking.” I had no idea what he meant. We were in a Tuesday Morning Bible Study in a nursing home.  Our topic was The Cross of Christ.  I’d begun the discussion…

Yesterday was Palm Sunday. We began this week we call Holy. A friend likes to nudge me and ask, “But aren’t they ALL holy?” A great teacher named Bill taught a whole bunch of us in Atlanta how true that…

Who is that? Who is that you’re welcoming into your heart, your mind and your life this Palm Sunday? And who are you keeping out?

“Are we out of coffee?” “We’re fine.  Probably enough here for another cup or two.” “Yeah, but they said they’d be coming by.  Let’s go ahead and make some more.  Then when we need it, we’ll have it.” That applies to…

“Where you there, when they crucified my Lord?” asks that old song. Anymore, we might well ask, too, “Were you there, when they politicized my Lord?” Or maybe, “Were you there, when they sanitized my Lord?” You’ll have some more ideas.…

He leaned over to me in Sunday School and said, “Sometimes I think we make it all too complicated.” I agreed. And since then, he’s made me wonder: if we do make the Gospel more complicated than Christ Jesus did,…

“You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.”  — Henry Ford. “”Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the ones who do the will of my Father who…

She was following the bumper sticker. Getting close enough to read it. The bumper sticker, in its entirety: “Are You Following Jesus This Closely?” My friend told me that last week at the end of a worship service last week I agree with…