Who are the people who showed you the gospel? Each one of those relationships is the church, just like Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch are the church, writes Tara Bulger.
"Fostering a sense of belonging means giving up some of our control, allowing ourselves to be guests instead of hosts in a space that feels like ours," writes Teri McDowell Ott.
Resurrection is happening all around us, all the time, writes Ellen Williams Hensle.
We, like the disciples in John 20, are called to leave the security of locked doors and closed minds, to leave the safety of status so we the Holy Spirit can send us into the world God loves, writes Chris Currie.
The original end of Mark's Gospel is one full of questions and fear, writes Teri McDowell Ott. And that's ok. It’s not a fear without faith or hope.
"We want salvation now and the celebration to begin today. But sometimes the colt goes around in circles, and we have to start again tomorrow," writes Matthew A. Rich.
Jesus teaches his disciples that death is a necessary pre-condition to life. What in our lives might need to fall into the earth and die so that something else might be born? — Ginna Bairby
"In life, we will be bitten, but we will also be healed," writes Baron Mullis of Numbers 21.
Jesus teaches that his body is the new temple in which God’s presence dwells. If the church is called to be Christ’s body, where does that mean we should be? — Ginna Bairby
Is faith something to market? Maybe, writes Teri McDowell Ott.
"We put more energy into building and maintaining walls to mark our boundaries ... than we put into building relationships, diverse communities and just systems that remove the need for walls." — Teri McDowell Ott
What do we do when we encounter something that fills us with wonder – that bubbly, contradictory mix of expansiveness and finitude and interconnectednes? Rose Schrott Taylor reflects.
The pressures of our lives can leave us withered and exhausted. But when we remember our story, we will find the wind that helps us take flight, bringing us home, writes Teri McDowell Ott.
The church exists because of Jesus Christ. All things exist because of Jesus Christ. It’s amazing, astounding and true, writes John Wurster.
We can hear the urgency in the lectionary texts for January 21, but how does that translate to us today? — Stephanie Sorge
“O Lord, you have searched me and known me.” This knowing can be painful and challenging. The truth often is. Yet God pursues us in love and offers us the truth as a path to healing. — Teri McDowell Ott
Mark’s Gospel will continually draw us to the margins, de-centering power and privilege. It’s an invitation for us to to leave our comfort zones, writes Stephanie Sorge.
Philip Gladden looks at the connection between Christmas and Easter laid out in Luke 2 and Galatians 4.
"We need not understand all the science behind awe to appreciate its gift and join the heavenly host in singing God’s praise," writes Teri McDowell Ott.
"This Advent, it may help to think of our faith communities as people who hold up mirrors to the world, reflecting the light of Christ we have found." — Tara W. Bulger
In a world of doubts, Teri McDowell Ott writes, there are eternal truths that we can cling to.
"This Advent, the political and social chaos of Jesus’ day resonates a little too well." Teri McDowell Ott reflects on Mark 13:24-37.
Our salvation – indeed, the redemption of the whole world – is inextricably bound to our relationships with one another, writes Ginna Bairby.
What are we to make of the harsh master in Matthew 25:14-30, Carol Holbrook Prickett wonders?
In these times filled with perilous choices and consequences, Joshua 24 reminds us that God has brought us thus far and God has a purpose for us.
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