“‘Do you want to be made well?’ Jesus asked the man who had been living as an invalid for 38 years…Usually people were begging Jesus to heal them, to cure them from whatever illness had...

“Several summers ago I went hiking with some friends in the beautiful mountains of Glacier National Park in Montana…We came upon a long portion of the trail…that had been completely burned to the ground just...

“Each of the gospels has different versions of the grief Jesus’s followers experienced after their beloved teacher died. In the version we heard today from John 21:1-19, the disciples have already seen the resurrected Jesus,...

“Easter is the most hopeful day in the Christian year – a day we celebrate Christ’s resurrection and the incomparable news that death never has the last word! Not for Jesus. Not for us…God’s promises...

“He was minding his own business. But he ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time…or so it seemed…Luke’s Gospel (Luke 23:26) says that on a certain Friday 2000 years ago, a man...