Jesus’ final week was, among other things, a great Summing Up—his way of emphasizing one last time what really matters. In today’s reading, Jesus linked life (the seed) and light to...

John’s Gospel has always been my favorite. It was the first part of the Bible I read after professing my faith in Christ in 1963. I have read it many times...

The Passion narrative is filled with violence: Judas’s plot; a corrupt legal system; public humiliations of Jesus, along with a beating administered while in custody; and public torture and execution. Reading...

Throughout the Passion narrative we hear witness to God’s gift and call. Today I invite you to meditate on Luke’s version of the institution of the Eucharist. Here it is more...

Today’s reading provides another lens through which we are invited to see the Passion narrative. Paul wrote, “Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus” as a...

Having empathy is a first step in the disciple’s way of generosity. Today’s reading begins, “Be gracious to me . . . for I am in distress, my eye wastes away...

We turn toward the readings from the Liturgy of the Passion, first to Isaiah’s witness to the Suffering Servant. Along with the psalm and epistle to follow, this reading works to...

God is addressing you through the scriptures, calling you to participate in what God is doing. That’s never truer than in the psalm appointed for the Liturgy of the Palms. Note...

Today we begin our turn toward Holy Week and toward the complex liturgy with which it begins, Passion/Palm Sunday. Which is it? It’s both, Palms and Passion juxtaposed, and there begins...

Twenty-five years ago, on the Fifth Sunday of Lent, our organization underwent upheaval. I worked for the General Board of Discipleship (now Discipleship Ministries) of The United Methodist Church. That morning...