Faith, Fiction, Friends

After Luke 19:11-27 On the precipice of the crack in time, the moment when nothing would be the same again, the moment  ...

After Luke 19:11-27 A story about stewardship, about faithfulness, about investment, turned out to be a story about somet...

After Luke 19:11-27 He told a story, a parable, and for two reasons, it says plainly, stated explicitly, unusually, as if the...

After Luke 18:9-14 Two men in the temple to pray: one a Pharisee, one a tax collector; one of the most admired class, one...

After Luke 18:9 A named audience for the story, not implied or to be inferred but stated plainly and directly: some (not all)...

After Luke 15:11-32 Given much, showered with blessings, with comforts and luxuries, necessities and surpluses, what’s needed...

After Luke 15:11-32 I wandered through the store, myself lost, looking for the lost and found, seeking something I didn’t know,...

After Luke 15:1-10 The coin drops on the floor, or is dropped, its edge catching upright, The coin rolls by its own momentum ...

After Luke 15:1-10 Amid the murmurs and the muttering, disdain for the dirty, the nasty, the deplorable, the dregs, the unr...

After Luke 14:12-24 I heard the call to the feast and wow what an opportunity  what a great opportunity let me check my cal...

After Luke 14:12-24 The feast prepared  and ready, the call goes out  to come to the beast,  this would have been  the seco...

After Luke 14:1-11 We crowd the table, jostling each other for the best seat, the seat closest to recognition, to acceptance,...

After Luke 12:13-21 We pack it all in our basements, or attics, our storage lockers, our storage pods, our garages, our close...

After Luke 12:13-21 A sermon, a lecture, a teaching, with crowds listening, taking notes on their hearts, when he stood whe...

After Luke 12:13-21 It’s not the possession it never is it’s the motive, the inspiration, the impulse: as if we earned it ...

Daniel is walking out on what is left of his life. Admittedly, little seems left. He’s been out of work for a long time, having lost hi...