Grace, Peace, and Mercy from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. In today’s Gospel text we are sent back again to the beginning of Mark’s Gospel into Jesus’ baptism, now with the addition of Jesus’ temptation in the Wilderness. So immediately after the Son is declared Beloved, “the Spirit immediately drove him out into the […]

Grace, Peace and Mercy from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. In the Gospel text we read for Ash Wednesday, Jesus comments on three pillar activities that we Christians do during Lent to get closer to God: good works or almsgiving, prayer, and fasting. This text is a great primer to be mindful of as […]

Beloved, I want to invite you into the mystery of the Transfiguration of Jesus. A mystery need not be a problem to solve. It is not a puzzle for our rational mind to solve with our cleverness. I invite all to acclimate ourselves to the atmosphere of the mountaintop, to sit still and marvel in the […]