The Pharisees where sticklers for the Sabbath, but only when it worked for them. Jesus makes the point that they’d find a loophole for helping their children or their livestock…
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Jesus is here predicting both Israel’s rejection of him in Jerusalem and the subsequent destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem. He implies that if the Jews had received him as…
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In the little parables of the Mustard Seed and the Leaven, Jesus wants us to understand that we are not accurate assessors of God’s work in the world. The Kingdom…
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People want to get Jesus’s thoughts on some atrocity that Pontius Pilate ordered: “Now there were some present at that time who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had…
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This passage is about the implications of Jesus’s message: One implication (verses 49-53) is that his message is inherently divisive, because there are people who will not accept and will…
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The parable Jesus tells here about an untrustworthy household manager is terrifying, particularly for those in Christian leadership. 47 “The servant who knows the master’s will and does not get ready…
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Jesus seems to think of the world as a safe place, full of abundance, created by a generous God: 22 Then Jesus said to his disciples: “Therefore I tell you, do not…
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Until recently, I was confused by the words of Jesus we find in today’s reading: 33 “No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be…
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Rather than coming to terms with the obvious power at work in his ministry, some of the people slander Jesus and say that he is only able to exorcise demons…
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We made the mistake of giving our two year-old daughter chewing gum earlier this summer. (It was a moment of temporary parental insanity, Your Honor.) I’m assuming that the gum…