Dear Friends: We have a tendency to overlook the genealogies and logistical inventories of the Bible, but we can always learn something if we reflect on them for a while. The genealogy of Jesus in Matthew 1 tells us that the Christ came to us through the great and very ordinary, adulterers and murderers, the […]
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A Word of Grace – January 31, 2011
Dear Friends: They came to Bethsaida. Some people brought a blind man to him and begged him to touch him. He took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village; and when he had put saliva on his eyes and laid his hands on him, he asked him, “Can you […]
A Word of Grace – January 24, 2011
Dear Friends: Jesus’ last instruction to his disciples was this: “I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high” (Lk 24:49). The disciples had just been traumatized by the crucifixion and shocked by the appearance of the resurrected […]
A Word of Grace – January 18, 2011
Dear Friends: And a large crowd followed him and pressed in on him. Now there was a woman who had been suffering from hemorrhages for twelve years. She had endured much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had; and she was no better, but rather grew worse. She had heard about Jesus, […]
A Word of Grace – Jan 10, 2011
Dear Friends: Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them, “Go into the village ahead of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her; untie them and bring them to me. If anyone says anything to you, just say this, ‘The Lord needs them.’ And he will send them immediately.’This […]