According to John, Jesus begins his ministry by showing more than telling. In the temple, Jesus disrupts and overturns the systems of corruption and profiteering taking place, but ultimately points us to the promise of restoration. Paul reminds the Corinthians (and us) that God's wisdom is more expansive than we can imagine. We are shown the way, even if God's "was" feels foolish, counter-cultural, disruptive, or uncomfortable.

Join us as we contemplate the commentary by Rev. T. Denise Anderson, art by Rev. Lisle Gywnn Garrity, and pray the poem by Rev. Sarah Are from A Sanctified Art's Lenten Devotional Again & Again: A Lenten Refrain