#easter 6a

The Love Command in ActionEaster 6A  |  John 14:15-21 We get philosophical Jesus this morning, don’t we? Here he is, describing the Advocate and the Trinitarian nature of God. It is all very heady, in that way. And for a lot of people, this is incredibly instructive because they want to dig into the metaphysics to answer the existential nature of God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. This answers…

While the disciples are obsessing over certainty of belief, conviction, knowing what the future holds, where all of this following Jesus is going, and what God wants for the world, Jesus tries to assure them that they already know the way. They have what they need. And on top of that, they’ll have the Holy Spirit with them. The promise of Jesus’s presence. All of this is very good. And yet he…

A look at the gaps in the lectionary. This week: the gap between Easter 5 and 6 The text: John 14 This week’s gospel runs straight out of last week’s. Which means there is no gap in the lectionary. What I’ll invite us to think about this week, as we prepare for Sunday, is what led to last week’s gospel and how that situates us now. Confrontation This passage arises out of confrontation. A…

My parents were going out on a date and I was old enough to be left home without a babysitter. Just not old enough to make good decisions.

I was asking them about going to a friend’s house (he’s moving the next day! I pleaded. I won’t see him again!) They weren’t going to be home anyway, so what’s the big deal?

The big deal is that they said no. They wanted me to be at home. They were going away.