Author: Lowell Grisham

I believe that Luke’s chronology matches the experiences of so many people in our generation also.

I couldn’t help thinking, “HERE is the Glorious Appearing. HERE is the power, and the great glory. What is everybody waiting for?”

It makes me wonder. How different might my life and my faith have been had I been raised in a family with such practices?

Given our limited insight, resources, and emotional nourishment, most of us are doing just about as well as we can. And we can fail so miserably.

It is tense. This may be the last time Jesus can gather safely with his friends. Betrayal is in the air. What will he do? This is his last chance to teach, to reinforce the message that he has been living all this time.

We should have listened to the prophets, the poet tells a grieving nation.

It’s almost impossible to attack entrenched power straight-on. It must be undermined. Usually its destructive power has to be brought out into the open where everyone can see its brokenness. But that means victims

Like Jesus, we can offer our own pain, our helplessness and hopelessness to God, asking God to use our suffering like God used Jesus’ suffering, for the healing of the world.