Grace, Peace and Mercy from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. In today’s Gospel text, Jesus starts teaching some controversial things. He says, “quite openly” to everyone how He, the Son of Man, must undergo great suffering, be rejected by the authorities, killed, and then rise again from the dead in 3 days. Peter was, […]

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 […]