In this episode, we learn that our fasts should ultimately lead us to work towards righting the wrongs in our world. This begins by loving our neighbor right where we are!

In this episode, we learn that the call to “take up a cross” is not a call to be miserable, but rather a call to full dependence on God.

In this episode, we see that the person in the beginning of the story who is blind is the only one who can see by the end. And we are caution to not let even a religious practice blinded to the truth of Jesus!

In this episode, we learn from the story of Samuel that God’s voice is often more bewildering than certain!

In this episode, we realized with Isaiah the depth of our own sin and we are called to confess our sin as well as the sins of our fellow human beings. We are challenged to not skip ahead to the resurrection, but to spend moments realizing the depth of our own sin, so we can understand more fully the joy of the resurrection!

In this episode, we learn that as we find ourselves in solidarity with those who are not in the “laugh crowd,” as Brueggemann states, we open ourselves up to the possibility of hope.

In this episode, we see that Jesus is pushed towards a Canaanite woman because of her faith and persistence.

In this episode, we see that the the rainbow is a reminder of God’s faithfulness to us even when we have not been faithful to God!

In this episode we learned that, while grace and mercy are the free gifts of God, they don’t allow us to presume to have control over God or be able to put God in a box!

In this episode we hear Paul telling the Corinthian church that God’s value system is different than ours!