Friday of the Second Week in Lent Read Mark 3:20–35 (31–35) My big brother has some nerve. He’s drawing huge crowds, healing people left and right — and he’s beginning to ruffle feathers among religious leaders. People are saying he’s losing his mind. Since he’s back toward home, we decide to go talk sense into… Read more »
March 17, 2017
Meeting Jesus: March 17 Jesus’ Brother
Friday of the Second Week in Lent Read Mark 3:20–35 (31–35) My big brother has some nerve. He’s drawing huge crowds, healing people left and right — and he’s beginning to ruffle feathers among religious leaders. People are saying he’s losing his mind. Since he’s back toward home, we decide to go talk sense into… Read more »
Judging our neighbors Franklin Graham, Pat Robertson and the aftermath of a storm By Joshua Bower It’s hard to see with a log in your eye. At least that’s what Jesus taught: With the judgment you make you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get. Why do you… 
Jesus of right here, right now Rediscovering the modern-day Christ By Robyn Davis Sekula Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus of Mosul. Jesus of Baltimore. Jesus of Newark. It was a thunderbolt moment for me, the moment that Alonzo Johnson spoke these words aloud to those gathered for morning worship at NEXT Church national gathering in Kansas… 
Make us thirsty A Revised Common Lectionary resource for March 19 by Magdalena I. García The woman said to him, ‘Sir, give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water.’ —John 4:15 Read the full lectionary passages here She came to the well alone… 
Monday of the Second Week in Lent Read Matthew 9:9–13 That new rabbi in town came by my booth today. He’s already attracting followers — many who feel no love toward men of my ilk. But he called me, the tax collector, to join his ranks. It’s foolishness, but I couldn’t say no. Right there,…