Jesus Day and yes, the countdown to the end of the middle school year has started. What are gracious words? Polite words? Flattery? Let's learn to live speaking words of grace for Justice in Faith.

Blessings and Peace.

Jesus Day today is Mother's Day or Parent's Day in Asian reckoning. How do we honor our parents in these days of superficiality?

Peace and Blessings!

Jesus Day again. The Lord spoke through Ezekiel to counter a popular understanding to focus on the individual and the choices that individual makes. This is a great teaching because it means we are not condemned by association and racialization. Blessings and Peace.

Happy Jesus day. Today let's discuss purification of the soul. Challenging. Then let's discuss the environment that this can happen best (Free society) and then let's figure out what we do with all that Freedom.

Blessings.

Jesus Day and we are discussing the Confession of Faith, that is, how do you know your faith is real or not? It's tricky primarily because laying out a specific act as an indication of faith creates a moral hazard, or an idol. Something so fundamental and foundational and something which often is confused.

What do we do and how do we live a genuine life of faith?

Blessings and Peace.

Jesus Day once again. How do we acquire wisdom and understanding and what are we to do with them? Do we use them to control others? Or do we acquire Wisdom and Understanding to be Free? More Freedom and Peace, Please!

Happy Easter! This Sunday is a special Jesus Day. It is unfortunate that we were not one of the early disciples who could have seen Jesus in person. But where does that leave us? Thomas didn't believe until he saw... How do we believe without seeing?

May you be blessed and we all see Peace in the world... soon.

Palm Sunday. We all know that many people sang Jesus' praises at the beginning of the week but then were nowhere to be found at the end of the week. Why is that; what was the substance of their praise? How do we avoid the same mistake?

Blessing and Peace to us all!

For Jesus Day we are looking at 2Peter chapter 1. Though people would prefer to forget the sins of the past, we are called to remember them. This is the way to avoid living as the spiritually blind and instead discover what is moral.

And man-o-man, we need this ever more in this climate of war.

Blessings and Peace.

Jesus Day again. The parable of the Vineyard Owner and his workers. Though they all worked different number of hours, they were all paid the same. Is God unfair in rewarding believers? How can we read this and NOT get a sense of "unfair" practices by God? Yes, we take a swipe at the Labor Theory of Value, but what is often not considered is cost. This may help us to understand this passage and re-experience God's blessing. Peace.