Three offensive things before breakfast
The wonder in this story isn't that the crowds deserted Jesus, it's that anyone stayed at all.
Listen! Acts 2:1-21
Listening is love
What is your only comfort in life and in death?
Heidelberg ho!
Rage, Race and Residence
I've known some straight-up, stone-cold racists in rural areas. But then I've also known some in urban areas.
Grow up, he says in the kindest way possible - 1 John 3:1-7
Like any children, adopted or not, we are still learning what it means to be a part of this big, loud, crazy family. And just like any children, we are changed by what we learn.
On Doubting Thomas and Discomfiture - John 20:19-31
There are several lessons we could extrapolate from this story. None of them are that Thomas was wrong to doubt in the first place.