Today is Trinity Sunday, and let’s be honest: the Trinity can feel like the ultimate abstraction. But what we believe about Jesus can be the difference between trying to earn love and learning to trust it…

At Pentecost, the Spirit rushes in like a mighty wind. Not to erase Babel, but to redeem it. The rift we couldn’t fix—God does…

Prayer is asking for what we do not have and cannot create.

When Jesus prays for us, he's asking the Father to do what only God can do — to make a way out of no way…

The Ascension isn't a departure at all—it's the fulfillment of the Incarnation. In Jesus, God became human. In the Ascension, humanity is taken up into God…

real transformation rarely begins when we treat it like a test to pass. It begins when we realize we don’t have to change to be loved. We are loved already. And that—paradoxically—is what makes change possible…

How has Jesus loved them? He’s just washed their feet. Including Judas’s. He’s fed them all, including the ones who will abandon him. Peter will deny him three times before sunrise. The rest will scatter. Jesus knows this—and he loves them still…

We don’t hear the Shepherd because we’re good at searching.

We hear him because he’s already come looking for us…

The Resurrection doesn’t erase Peter’s past.

It transforms it.

The place of his greatest shame becomes the place of his greatest calling…

This morning’s Gospel picks up where Easter left off.

Mary Magdalene: “I have seen the Lord.”

But they don’t respond with joy. They lock the doors.

They’re afraid—of the authorities, yes. But maybe also of what Mary’s words could mean.

To the Romans, Jesus was an insurrectionist.

To the religious leaders, a blasphemer.

To the disciples, he had been everything—and they had failed him…

"The Resurrection gives birth to hope—a living hope—resilient enough to withstand the pull of nihilism, apathy, and despair. The kind of hopelessness that creeps in when we contemplate oblivion—when we fear that nothing means anything at all.

Our God has acted—and he promises to act again. He will bring evil, suffering, and loss to an end, once and for all. And this is the greatest hope..."