Outrageous!

Have you ever heard news that seemed outrageous, audacious, mind-blowing? Surely you have. How did you react? Well, that’s just what the people heard when the disciples told them of Jesus’s love for them—so much love that He suffered and died for them on the cross. But more, that He rose from the dead. And […]

God Willing to be Humiliated

Palm Sunday kicks off the great paradox of Holy Week. Can you imagine God, the omniscient, omnipotent Creator of the universe, the source of all we are and all we have (you know – God!)  willing to be humiliated in front of you? But that’s what He did: He rode into Jerusalem on a donkey […]

Are You the One?

John the Baptist gives the best example of legacy. His life’s work was focused on Jesus. John wanted his followers to come to know Jesus better. So, he sent his disciples to ask Jesus, “are you the one?” Here he was in prison, as we read in Matthew 11, in dire straits, and he asked […]

St. Paul is Our Model

We read in 2 Thessalonians 3:6-9 how St. Paul is our model. He said, “We instruct you, brothers, in the name of [our] Lord Jesus Christ, to shun any brother who conducts himself in a disorderly way and not according to the tradition they received from us. For you know how one must imitate us. […]

You are the Temple of God

St. Paul asks us, “Do you not know that you are the temple of God?” You, me, all of us are the resulting legacy of the building that Paul started on the foundation of Jesus Christ. He goes on to tell us that he laid the foundation. That foundation is Jesus. And others are building […]