Matthew 5:1-12 I don’t know if any of you have had the chance yet to watch The Chosen, or if you’ve even heard of it yet. It has been around for a couple of years now, but Ben and I are very often late to things like this, and we are just now getting aroundContinue reading “Maps to Jesus”
Category Archives: all saints
A How-to Guide to Sainthood
All Saints Day 2023 My campus minister was once asked the question “what does it take to be a saint?” He answered baptism, and death. That simple answer was met with stunned silence followed by a rush of questions and challenges. He stood by his answer, and all these years later I find it stillContinue reading “A How-to Guide to Sainthood”
Remember the Living
Ephesians 1:11-23 If there is one thing that the annual observance of the feast of All Saints can teach us, it is that we do not come to know Jesus in a vacuum. None of us is a product solely of our own originality, but rather a mosaic of all the little pieces we haveContinue reading “Remember the Living”
We will be Real.
John 11:32-44 In one of C S Lewis’s shorter and lesser known works, The Great Divorce, the author and convert to Christianity explores the afterlife, the Great Divide between heaven and hell. The souls of those in hell are trapped in an ever expanding gray expanse of urban sprawl, constantly chilled and overcast in aContinue reading “We will be Real.”
Mother A Writes 