So the last time I preached, Peter came up to me afterward and said, “Thank you for taking time to ask, “What now? What do we do with all this?” He told me he appreciates that I always manage to land there and how getting practical is often difficult. While I externally thanked him, internally …
“Who is this?” That’s the question asked when the man born blind and in God’s spitting image, the man who was sent to wash returns with sight. Is he the man who used to sit and beg? Is he someone like him? Apparently, the answer is …
Even in the most difficult times in my life of faith, there’s been something about Jesus. Like those times when my jaw clinched against my will. From deep within my gut anger rose up like a kindled tinder bursting into flame. Rarely opened spickets in my eyes allowed the early stages of tears to form. …
Like the meritocracy, victimhood is another way we seek to answer the question, “Who sinned?” The Lord God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?” He said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.” He said, “Who told you …
The question, “Who sinned?” launches us into a multi-week exploration of the local context of John 10:10 and Jesus’ offer of an abundant life. Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind? John 9:2, NRSV