Today’s Reflection EASTER SUNDAY was never our final destination during Lent. Easter Sunday is a triumph, yes, but it serves as an inspirational staging area for what comes next. If we leave the church as confirmed Eighth-Day believers, then what we’re really doing is signing up to join Jesus in the ... Continue

Today’s Reflection ON EASTER morning, we celebrate Christ’s resurrection, which is more than just a return to life; it is a new, stronger, never-ending life. … We emerge from Lent as new people, transformed by our time in the wilderness and by the work we did there. We partake of Christ’s ... Continue

Today’s Reflection "> O CHRIST of the cross,of the grave, of the road.Before me, behind me,beside me, beloved by me.Where you have gone, let me go:to the poor and the sick. As you have cared, let me care:for the doubting and the broken.When you have prayed, let me pray:at daybreak and nightfall.Today, tomorrow, ... Continue

Today’s Reflection I ALWAYS HAVE a difficult time thinking of what to say or to write about the Crucifixion. … The amazing reality for me, in considering the horrors of that day, is that Jesus not only knew exactly what was going to happen to him, but also could have ended it ... Continue

Today’s Reflection In the dark night of my soul I long for someone’s comfort and no one comes. There is no one to call. I imagine Jesus in the Garden praying Until sweat became blood And even the disciples would not wake. This night is my garden. When will help come? Where is grace? Will I be able to take ... Continue

Today’s Reflection SOMETIMES IN OUR FAMILIARITY and haste we bypass verses of scripture. Because we already know the story of who “betrayed” Jesus, our attention in this passage [John 13:21-32] jumps quickly ahead to the conversation between Jesus and Simon Peter, the piece of bread, and Judas’s leaving the meal to ... Continue

Today’s Reflection THREE YEARS had passed since my husband’s last trip outside the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex when I mentioned how nice it would be to visit our son and his family in Arkansas over the Easter weekend. … Bob did well on the trip, and both of us enjoyed the sunny weather ... Continue

Today’s Reflection WHEN JESUS SUFFERED and died on the cross, God bore the sin and suffering of the world. By giving his life to the bitter end, Jesus shared the fate of all innocent victims of inhumanity. He took the suffering of the world upon himself. He absorbed the agony of ... Continue

Today’s Reflection TODAY IS PALM SUNDAY, and also Passion Sunday: today’s little parade is fanfare, prelude, signaling the arrival of the unholy circus we call Holy Week — whose climax is not three rings but three Roman crosses, stabbed in bloody relief against Jerusalem’s skyline, an eclipse of justice so cosmic ... Continue

Today’s Reflection SO OFTEN WE ARE “WORRIED AND DISTRACTED by many things.” This was true for Martha. In her efforts to offer Jesus hospitality, she complains that her sister, Mary, is leaving her to do all the work. Mary sits at Jesus’ feet. Reflecting his love for Martha, Jesus repeats her ... Continue