April 2025

Jesus, Lent and Easter, Loss and Grief, Love, Miracles, Sermons, Sin and Redemption, Spirituality, Suffering and Loss, Transformation and Wholeness

The Passion: The Loving Heart of God

Easter Sunday, April 20, 2025 – Luke 24:1-12 Years ago, I visited a Shroud of Turin exhibit that was housed in the CNN center in downtown Atlanta. The Shroud itself wasn’t there, but large photographs were everywhere that showed very clearly what probably happened to Jesus. It was a very emotional experience. So, when the […]

Contemplation and Spiritual Practices, Friendship, Healing, Lent and Easter, Politics and Culture, Relationships, Ritual and practice, Sermons, Sin and Redemption, Transformation and Wholeness, Worldviews and Cosmology

Journey to the Passion: Healing Hearts in Community

Thursday, April 17, 2025, Maundy Thursday – Gospel: John 13:1-17, 31b-35, 1 Corinthians 12:12-14, 20-27 In 2023, I had the incredible privilege of co-leading a spiritual pilgrimage to the Isle of Iona off the coast of Scotland. It was quite a journey getting there. We of course flew overnight to Glasgow and then after a restful

Faith, Forgiveness, Lent and Easter, Loss and Grief, Love, Relationships, Sermons, Spirituality, Suffering and Loss, Vulnerability

Journey to the Passion: Shattered Hearts

April 13, 2025, Passion Sunday – Luke 19:28-40, Isaiah 50:4-9a, Psalm 31:9-16, Philippians 2:5-11, Luke 22:14—23:56 We began this service with Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem on the donkey as the people waved palms and shouted “Hosanna!” We’ve just heard the whole passion narrative that begins with the final supper that Jesus shared with his closest

Faith, Forgiveness, Lent and Easter, Loss and Grief, Love, Relationships, Sermons, Sin and Redemption, Spirituality, Transformation and Wholeness

Journey to the Passion: Resentful Hearts

Sunday, March 30, Lent 4 – Joshua 5:9-12, Psalm 32, 2 Corinthians 5:16-21, Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=\”\”]I stood in the library of the Lutheran Church of the Resurrection, preparing to leave for a spiritual retreat the next day at the Greenbough House of Prayer in middle Georgia. I pulled Henri Nouwen’s book The Return

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