February 2013

This past Sunday in my sermon I talked about Jesus’ lament over Jerusalem, “a city who kills her prophets”, he says, a broken and lost city. Jerusalem is the center of the Jewish universe and over the vast sweep of scripture it forever has had an ambiguous identity. On theRead More →

For the last several days the refrain in the song that occurs right at the dramatic end of the movie Places in the Heart has been running through my mind: “Softly, tenderly Jesus is calling …calling me to come home.” The song is not in our hymnal, but it is familiarRead More →