Today’s universal family event is a meeting of the Tenth Leper Club. After Jesus healed ten lepers, they all went joyously on their way, but one of them turned back, came to Jesus and gave thanks and worship. It’s so easy to enjoy a blessing, even appreciate a blessing, without adequately …
Love and commandment
Why did Jesus teach love as a commandment? Because to focus just on loving God and the neighbor was so liberating for the Jews who at that time were up to their necks in commandments. Secondly, Jesus was not an autobiographical preacher. You have to read between the lines for clues to his …
Doctors’ orders and spiritual liberation
Is life overly medicalized today? Your life in particular? Last night's news reported a spike in the number of drivers going over a hundred miles an hour on highways that are now less populated with cars. I think it's the pressure in immature minds. Although I offer no counsel about how much medical …
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How is loving the neighbor like loving God?
No discourse today. It's the 9:19 video / podcast episode. An amoeba envelops a particle of food, Lee Glickstein's method that awakens love in listeners (see his book, Be Heard Now!) And a question that has been waiting for your answers. …
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What a way to start the day!
To start the day with worship! The ambitious desire to worship blocks it, but the will that worships . . . goes forth . . . may find itself knocking on the door . . . and being caught up like a bird circling higher and higher on an updraft along the side of a mountain. Worship in the mystery of the …
The wonderfulness within
Persons of every religion and no religion report discoveries of the wonderfulness within. Their language and concepts differ, but the transformative presence is the same: a source of energy, power, insight, wisdom, love, mercy, peace, joy, creativity, purpose, and guidance—not necessarily all at the …
