This week we look atLuke 1:39-55, the story of unexpected, inexplicable pregnancies. When Mary is told by the Angel that she is to bear a son, though she has not been with a man, she believes and steps into that crazy promise. What do we sense God inviting us into? Can we believe and step in? 

This week we look atLuke 1:39-55, the story of unexpected, inexplicable pregnancies. When Mary goes to visit her elderly cousin Elizabeth, whom she has been told is now with child, the baby in Elizabeth's womb starts to do somersaults, and Elizabeth knows through the Spirit that she is in the presence of the mother of her Lord. What kind of amazing God-life are you and I carrying? 

This week we look atLuke 1:39-55, the story of unexpected, inexplicable pregnancies. We are told that Mary goes "with haste" to see her aged cousin Elizabeth, in the throes of her own unlikely pregnancy. There are times for waiting in life, and times to take decisive action. 

This week we look atLuke 3:7-18, the story of John the Baptizer in the wilderness. He made it clear he was not the Show - he was the opening act for the one who would redeem all things. 

This week we look atLuke 3:7-18, the story of John the Baptizer in the wilderness. He spoke of judgment and fire - hard to find the Good News in that. Yet Christianity also has positive associations with fire - the Holy Spirit, the purifying love of God. 

This week we look atLuke 3:7-18, the story of John the Baptizer in the wilderness. He told those in authority not to abuse their power - how might we communicate that message to people in our own day? 

This week we look a tLuke 3:7-18, the story of John the Baptizer in the wilderness. As we take in his warnings about greed, how might we loosen our grip on our "too much?" (Here is the link to the Giving Tree for foster youth I mention in this episode.)

This week we look at Luke 3:7-18, the story of John the Baptizer in the wilderness. John was capable of a really good rant on occasion - when is that a holy thing?

Today we  turn from Sunday's gospel to the story of two elders whom God invited into our story of Incarnation, Zechariah and Elizabeth, the aged parents of John the Baptist. This imagined monologue is based on Luke 1:5-25. Might we find some of our own stories in Zechariah's?

This week we look Luke 3:1-6, in which we meet John the Baptizer, who spoke of a level road for God to come into our lives. That level road becomes a place we can walk with God through our highs and our lows.