Holy Week 2020: Last Supper Lessons

The Gospel of John is the only gospel to record the various teachings Jesus gave to his disciples during the Last Supper, the day before he was crucified.  Isn’t it true that we tend to especially remember the “final words” someone gave?  During this Holy Week, I’ll...

Wash Your Hands

If you’re anything like me, you’ve read an article or two about what precautions you can take to avoid contracting the novel coronavirus. And all of those articles start with the same advice: wash your hands.  We now all know that in order to clean our hands properly...

A Game Changer

Have you ever had an encounter with someone stronger in the faith that entirely changed your method of living out the gospel? For me, her name was Judy, and we were standing in the boxed food aisle of my local grocery store. I knew Judy from church. She was all at...

The Urge to Purge

The Holy Spirit is pretty amazing. He continually holds my interest by allowing spiritual epiphanies at the strangest of times. My most recent revelation came as I watched an episode of Hoarders. It’s a television show that exposes the lifestyle of hoarding physical...

Be Your (Redeemed) Self

I’ve been getting lots of mediocre advice on Facebook lately about being myself. A typical example goes something like this: “Don’t change yourself so that other people will like you. Be yourself so that the right people will love you.” Okay, there’s a nugget of truth...

I Want To Be That Tree

We are over a week now into the new year.  How are your resolutions going?  There are probably three responses to that question. You feel proud and want to tell me that you’ve kept your resolutions every day so far and it’s been amazing. You groan...