I’m sure you’ve heard and read about how we are supposed to be giving people. While we may accept and agree with that, many of us have an inner dialogue that occurs when God asks us to give something. We wonder why God is asking us to give, especially if we don’t have much to  Read more …

End Of Ages: The Day Will Come… Jesus saw terrible times ahead – a day coming when not one stone of our human temple will rest on another.  He warned of signs: Devastation, Ruin, Emptiness, Wars, Trials and Persecutions. The prophet Malachi foresaw the same doom, the global blast furnace where all pride and evil  Read more …

One of the bigger issues that we have in churches today is the giving tithes and offerings. However if people really knew and could grasp the concept of how powerful giving tithes and offerings is, not only would everybody start giving, they would also do so with a heart of joy and thanksgiving. Today I  Read more …

Advent, A journey towards the horizon of hope. For us humans, it is necessary to always renew the common horizon toward which we are journeying. The horizon of hope! It is the Lord himself who guides our journey, the pilgrimage of all People of God; and by its light even the other peoples can walk  Read more …

One of the bigger issues that we have in churches today is the giving tithes and offerings. However if people really knew and could grasp the concept of how powerful giving tithes and offerings is, not only would everybody start giving, they would also do so with a heart of joy and thanksgiving. Today I  Read more …

That is the promise of God to Israel. The book of Jeremiah, the passage we read this Sunday, contains a diverse collection of prose and poetry directed at the kings who reign after King Josiah. The prophet is critical of these kings in that they fail to uphold the law on behalf of the people.  Read more …

Can we look forward to a new normal that is better than before? Before the pandemic the idea of any dramatic change in our simple lives would be unthinkable.  In the last few months we’ve seen such rapid changes in such a short amount of time.  The coronavirus has rebooted every aspect of life as  Read more …

“Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s.” (Matthew 22.21) Jesus seems to distinguish between what we owe to Caesar and what we owe to God. But is that really what the Gospel lesson is about?  No. The basic message of today’s Gospel is that we  Read more …

The world contains only one thing that is truly novel, forgiveness. Everything else is an old tape repeating itself endlessly over and over again. There is normally only one song that gets sung: betrayal-hurt-resentment-non-forgiveness. That pattern never changes. There is an unbroken chain of unforgiven resentment and anger stretching back to Adam and Eve. We are  Read more …

I’m sure you’ve heard and read about how we are supposed to be giving people. While we may accept and agree with that, many of us have an inner dialogue that occurs when God asks us to give something. We wonder why God is asking us to give, especially if we don’t have much to  Read more …