#easter 5c

Loving is our everything

Jesus commands us to love. But he doesn’t lay out the rules. It’s our job to figure out what that really means. Not our competitive gameEaster 5  |  John 13:31-35 This is the Last Supper. Jesus and the disciples. Around a table. Eating.  Jesus gets up and washes their feet. Which everybody thinks is pretty crazy. Not what they expected, right? But also, not what you do. You wash your own feet…

The thing about love is that we act as if it’s optional. Like we have a choice. Jesus doesn’t actually give us the choice. For SundayFifth Sunday of Easter Collect Almighty God, whom truly to know is everlasting life: Grant us so perfectly to know your Son Jesus Christ to be the way, the truth, and the life, that we may steadfastly follow his steps in the way that leads to eternal life;…

New Love For a Change - A GOD of new things calls us to a new love

It is in this moment, in the revealing of betrayal, which Jesus tells them to love. To love each other. This is how GOD loves: that GOD is willing to change the script and the very definition of love.

A GOD of new things calls us to a new love Easter 5C |  John 13:31-35

Peter breaks the news that he is doing a new thing. A shockingly new thing.

He is opening up the boundaries of the faith to…

John 13. Prince. Revelation 21:1-6. And loving one another.

Year C Easter Sunday number 5 is upon us. And it has walked into our lives when the world is watching floods in Houston, Texas; earthquakes in Ecuador; the death of Prince; hundreds dead and around a hundred children kidnapped in some cattle dispute along the South Sudan-Ethiopia border; and people activated over what amounts to ‘unisex privies’ and changes to paper currency.

As I sit here…