A House Without A Foundation Luke 6: 39-49 – 2025/2/23

It is God's word, it is God's wisdom which gives us the strength, gives us the courage to become people of love and grace, to live in a way which reflects the Beloved Community in all we do and say. [...]

Behaving as God’s Children Luke 6: 27-38 – 2025/2/23

God shows grace, God shows mercy, God shows love to the just and the unjust. Luke tells us that we are to act in ways, speak in ways which reflect the character of God in all things and through all [...]

To Hear and To Be Healed Luke 6: 17-26 – 2025/2/16

 Just as the disciples chose to hear Jesus, we can choose to invite the Gospel message into our hearts, in our minds, into our very beings. We can invite the Gospel message to transform us, to help us become the [...]

Leaving Everything Behind and Following Jesus Luke 5: 1-11 – 2025/2/9

Luke reminds us that our call as followers of Jesus is not about saving souls. It is not about membership numbers. Our call, our mission, our identity, our ministry as Jesus’ disciples is about building relationships with others, about being [...]

No Prophet is Welcome Luke 4: 21-30 – 2025/2/2

When we sit with this passage from Luke 4 for a while, we realize the crowd's reaction was never about Jesus. It was about them. It is about us. It is about the Beloved Community in our midst. It is [...]

Preach the Good News Luke 4: 14-21 – 2025/1-26

In Luke, we are told that Jesus, filled with the Holy Spirit, returns to Galilee to begin his ministry.  Unlike other Gospels where Jesus' ministry starts with miracles like turning water into wine, Luke has Jesus officially starting his ministry [...]