Posts with the category “tension”

“What do you want me to do for you?” The blind man said to him, “My teacher, let me see again.” Jesus said to him, “Go; your faith has made you well.” Mark 10:51-52 Jesus and his followers come to the...  Read More

Jesus called them and said to them, “You know that among the gentiles those whom they recognize as their rulers lord it over them, and their great ones are tyrants over them. 43 But it is not so among...  Read More

Jesus good because I want something from him? In the case of this man, it seems to be the latter. He wants Jesus to ensure him that he’s on the path to the sweet by and by, and I don’t think he’s alon...  Read More

This week I was blessed to officiate the wedding of a former youth group member from a few churches ago. In my homily I said the following, “I want to keep my words today few. Because words matter. Th...  Read More

Everyone knows Lord Acton’s famous quote, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” but few of us know the very next sentence in that quote, “Great men are almost always bad me...  Read More

Be still. Know that I am God....  Read More