Passion Week takes a sad turn. The excitement of the Triumphal Entry is in the rear-view mirror. The crowds have gone back to their daily grind. “Why is it still the same-old-same-old when we’ve got the Messiah?”, might have been the question uttered at the well, on the streets and in the fields. Why are […]
Most of us are unprepared to be betrayed. We probably all feel it at some point in our lives. People we trust go behind our backs. People we think are friends turn out to be enemies. People we love who do the worst of the worst to us. As we continue our series Pi and […]
We all know that feeling of elation when it seems like our dreams are coming true. For some of us, it will be a simple rain shower on a parched land. Or like Pi in our devotional series Pi and Chi, Asking and Answering Questions Why launched from the movie Life of Pi. He was […]
Mark 11:1 As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples, 2 saying to them, “Go to the village ahead of you, and just as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it […]
Alone and afraid. Alone, yes, but you still have your thoughts—your fears and regrets—to keep you company. Alone and facing the predator within. The predator whose constant presence threatens to steal your joy and your peace. Pi knew what it meant to be afraid, alone out on the ocean with a Bengal tiger to remind […]
In the Life of Pi, the movie we’ve been using as our launch for 40 days worth of questions, there is a certain skepticism, an incredulity, a doubt in the minds of the investigators of the shipwreck. The investigators want to know why the ship sank and are frustrated that Pi isn’t bringing them any […]
Pity the poor rich man” said most men… never. Except Jesus. Always the One to discomfort the comfortable and comfort the discomforted, Jesus offers perspective where there often is none. Mark 10:23 Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!” In the […]
Do you ever wish God would just show you the storyboard? That organizing visual which identifies what’s going to happen and the timing so you could just follow along? Like Cliff Notes that you could study in advance to keep track of the plot unfolding. The truth is I often read the plot of a […]
People can be really impatient, rushing headlong into bad decisions, even ones made to achieve what seems good on the surface. The wise person knows that other people cannot be a means to an end. Jesus as an earthly king with a food-multiplying ministry? People tried to do that, but anyone used as a means […]
Death is no friend. To anyone. Even with terminal illness, death is still an enemy in the eternal scope. It comes for the young and the old. It can even disguise itself, cloaked with compassion. Our loved one “is out of pain now,” we say. Love and life will somehow live on in memories. But […]
