We have a choice when we claim the Christian faith about how to live it out. How will we allow the teachings of Jesus to permeate our day-to-day lives? How will we embrace the symbolism and tradition? How will we educate ourselves to better understand the religion that informed Jesus and the lessons he espouses to his disciples and the crowds that gathered to hear his messages? What choices will we make when looking deep within ourselves and identifying that we are Christian?
Read MoreI write this on a plane flying over the Rocky Mountains spanning from the Canadian border to our neck of the words and then far beyond us. I can see tree lines highlighted with snow. I can see waterways and tributaries. Then the earth fades away under a blanket of thick billowy clouds holding the stories below a secret for me to imagine.
Read MoreI like to joke that the King James Version of the Bible is the one Jesus used.
I don’t quote the KJV very often, but sometimes, it hits home due to cultural usage and history so much more clearly than some of the more recent academic translations. This week’s epistle seems like an appropriate opportunity to use the shortest verse in KJV.
Jesus wept. - John 11. 35
