This gospel reading contains a lot of emotion—Joy, fear, anger, grief. None of it silenced. All that emotion is allowed to take up space. Religious spaces can often be unsafe places for emotions. Some churches teach that emotions are suspect; that they lead us astray and undermine our commitment to truth. Yet, Holy Week is not a journey we make with our head, but with our heart.

Jesus called both blessed: the hunger for righteousness and the practice of being merciful. What is the impact of the word “righteousness" upon you? What about the word “mercy”? To which do you gravitate?

In Sunday’s scripture, Luke 10:1-10, Jesus showed mercy to a man who had betrayed his community, spending time with him over a meal. It's the story of Zacchaeus, the tax collector. his story places us in the flow of Divine Love, and if we let it, opens us up to the creative, prophetic imagination and generous hospitality that Jesus showed in this story.

What do we need in order to grow into people who are loving people?

We are walking the Lenten road and following along with Jesus as he sets his face towards Jerusalem. Kristin offers a meditation about "choosing the better part": the part that leads us closer to him.

Join us in considering Luke 10:25-37. Brent invites us to use this Lenten season as a way of leaning into nourishing ourselves and taking care of each other.

"Because they stayed awake, they saw his glory." Staying awake … what does it mean for us today? Join us as Dr Mark Glanville walks us through Luke 9:28-36 (37-43a). It’s a rich feast… and there’s a little jazz piano, as well! 

Loving our enemies, loving our neighbours... what did Jesus mean?!

What’s going through Peter’s mind, in the space between Jesus’s words of comfort and invitation, and them bringing in the boats deep-laden with fish and landing again on shore, where Peter leaves everything to follow this rabbi? Madison Friesen invites into the scene in his meditation on Luke 5:1-11 .

Our endeavour this year as we work through the book of Luke is to encounter Jesus in a fresh way by asking “What does love look like, now?” In the aftermath of Jesus’ announcement that the prophecy of Isaiah 61 was fulfilled in the hearing of his listeners (Luke 4:20-30), what does love look like?

Putting actions on our words...