We look at what Jesus is getting at about the destruction of the Temple. Above all the mess of the world and the false hopes and promises it puts forward is the Christian witness to the Cross that truly and completely fulfills the meaning of that Temple.

The cynical Sadducees attempt to trap Jesus with a trick question on marriage in the afterlife, and Jesus brilliantly reverses things, demonstrating how they have misunderstood Scripture and the very character of God Himself, shattering their dead, vapid view of God, as well as this age and the age to come.

We explore one of Paul’s more mystical passages and the radical notion of the Church — all the saints — as Christ’s “fullness” and His glorious, predestined inheritance.

The Pharisee vs. the Tax Collector. Most read this as a parable about arrogance vs. humility, but it runs deeper than that. It’s a parable about the sin of self-justification and how true hope is found only and entirely in throwing yourself on the mercy of God, seen above all else in the Cross of Jesus Christ.

St. Luke, the regular ol' physician turned evangelist, portrays Jesus as the Great Physician, proclaiming Himself as the New Adam of the ultimate Jubilee come to heal humanity and bring them back to Paradise “today.”

Ten lepers healed and only one turns back to thank Jesus. We explore the real miracle that takes place in this story — the true healing of the human heart shown in genuine gratitude for the gifts of God — and why this often takes place in the “no man’s lands” of our lives.

Beginning with the way we crave and cry over goofy animal videos, we explore the tension between Creation’s “very good” beauty and its groamning, finding the answer to that tension in the Cross of Jesus Christ. 

Explore how the Christ and His Cross are the real Jacob’s ladder, the Incarnational “Gate of Heaven,” wherein Christ the Bridegroom wins His Bride, the Church, to the rejoicing of His friends, all the angels.

Matthew the tax collector and King Solomon the complicatedly unfaithful king show us why Proverbs 3 is the ultimate call to “follow me” to every forgetful sinner. 

On Holy Cross Day, we examine the “knife edge” of the Gospel: the brutal, counter-intuitive reality that God’s glory is most radiantly found in his descending into this world’s ugliness. Discover how Isaiah 53 and Philippians 2 reveal the Cross-shaped work of Christ that produces hope more real than our fears and turns the tragedies of the world into the comedy of God’s unstoppable promise.