Another great piece from our ongoing project, Bible Story Jam, this time on the Transfiguration as found in Luke 9:28-45, the reading many of us will hear in church this Sunday. What kind of mountaintop experiences have you had? What do you make of them? Can you relate them to what happens...
What Does Love Look Like to You?
posted by DJL
Since stumbling upon Kid President’s pep talk last week, I’ve become a huge fan of Soul Pancake. I can’t quite figure out what it is, who they are, or what they’re up to, but I like their stuff nevertheless. So take a look at this short flick they put together on “What does Love look like to YOU?” They sent out this question to the folks following their work and asked them — anyone — to send short video answers. Then they put a number of them together, added a little background music, and voila. The result, I think, is powerful. Anyone up for putting together “What does Faith look like to YOU?” Or maybe, “What...
Luke 6:12-16
posted by DJL
Now during those days he went out to the mountain to pray; and he spent the night in prayer to God. And when day came, he called his disciples and chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles: Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew, and James, and John, and Philip, and...
What Is Prayer?
posted by DJL
We had a fantastic discussion about baptism a week or two ago, one from which I am still learning. I’d like in this post to invite another conversation, this time about prayer. In recent years prayer has become more and more important to me. Not just in my own life, but as I think about the...
Luke 6:6-11
posted by DJL
On another Sabbath he entered the synagogue and taught, and there was a man there whose right hand was withered. The scribes and the Pharisees watched him to see whether he would cure on the Sabbath, so that they might find an accusation against him. Even though he knew what they were...