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Episode 376
Friends, we come to the Fourth Sunday of Easter, known as Good Shepherd Sunday. Jesus says in the Gospel, “I am the good shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.” What is it about …
Published on 1 year, 8 months ago
What Happens After We Die?
Episode 375
Friends, this week, on the Third Sunday of Easter, we have a passage from that magnificent twenty-fourth chapter of Luke—one of the appearances of the risen Christ to the Apostles. When we’re talking…
Published on 1 year, 8 months ago
Do You Struggle to Believe?
Episode 374
Friends, on the Second Sunday of Easter, we have the inexhaustible reading from the twentieth chapter of John—one of the accounts of the Resurrection appearances of Jesus. These are in many ways the …
Published on 1 year, 8 months ago
Evidence of the Resurrection
Episode 373
Friends, a very happy and blessed Easter! We come to the climax of the Church’s year, the feast of feasts, the very reason for being of Christianity. Everything in Christian life centers around the R…
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
Put Yourself in the Passion Narrative
Episode 372
Friends, we have the great privilege on Palm Sunday of reading from one of the Passion narratives, and this year, we read from the Gospel of Mark—the very first one written. But what I want to do tod…
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
Drinking the Blood of Christ
Episode 371
Friends, on this Fifth Sunday of Lent, we hear one of the most pivotal passages in the Old Testament: Jeremiah 31:31. Jeremiah knew the long Israelite history of covenant and blood sacrifice, but he …
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
Face Your Fears
Episode 370
Friends, the Gospel on this Fourth Sunday of Lent includes one of the most famous verses in the Bible: “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him migh…
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
A Tour of the Ten Commandments
Episode 369
Friends, on this Third Sunday of Lent, the Church asks us to look at one of the great texts in the Old Testament—namely, the Ten Commandments from the book of Exodus. Lent is a time of getting back t…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
When Your Faith Is Put to the Test
Episode 368
Friends, we come now to the Second Sunday of Lent, and we’re on both dangerous and very holy ground with the first reading from the twenty-second chapter of Genesis. The ancient Israelites referred t…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
Are Your Soul and Body at War?
Episode 367
Friends, we come now to the holy season of Lent. The Gospel for this First Sunday of Lent is Mark’s laconic version of the temptation of Jesus in the desert. Mark does not give us the details we find…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago