What if I’m here not to act but to be acted upon by Jesus? What if the most important thing in my life is not what I make of it but what is made of me by God?
…what this temple leader may have written in his diary after Jesus visited his synagogue.
Betsy, Greg, and Julie talk about the film Last Days in the Desert and discuss how a story emphasizing the humanity of Jesus reveals layers of understanding about temptation, family, desire, and destiny.
Whether or not we remember to invite him, the incarnate God, the cosmic Christ, walks on the waters of our hearts. He comes to the little boats of our consciousness, where we’re doing our best to deal with the storms handed to us by our lives.
When is a time you found yourself winging it, and discovered that you–and the name of Jesus–was enough to see it through?
To do something or Not to do something… That is the question
We all belong to the group of things that die and Jesus has joined us on the journey. He not only died for us, he dies with us. He gives us the greatest gift of his presence and he does not hold himself aloof from us or our mortality.
But here’s the problem with walls: as much as we think they keep “undesirable” people out, they also keep the fortunate ones penned in. In the end, both are in a cage. And even a cage of your own making is still a cage.
Starring as both Jesus and Lucifer in “Last Days in the Desert,” a film by Colombian director Rodrigo Garcia, Ewan McGregor was “a little freaked out” at the
I am still waiting for a few of my failures, some of my wounds, to turn to joy. Jesus forgot to say exactly when the joy would come. But, I am hopeful.