Glory fot the Valley

Every voice in the Good Friday story is some version of the same demand. Come down. Stop this. Prove who you are and get off that cross. But he stayed.

Jesus knew. He knew exactly what was coming. He knew who was about to betray him, who was about to deny him, who was going to run. And he washed their feet anyway,

Most of us learned confession wrong. We learned it as a transaction — you sin, you confess, you feel bad, you're forgiven, you try harder. The point was the guilt.

From the entry into Jerusalem to the Cross, everyone ran, hid or denied Jesus, everyone was broken.

Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer, the ancient rhythm of praying the hours — was designed from the beginning to be carried into ordinary life.

Something happens on Palm Sunday that happens on no other day in the Christian year. We hold the parade and the death in the same hour, in the same hands.

A candle lit in a dark room is not just a light source. It is a statement — and the church has been making it for two thousand years.

We tend to preach the raising of Lazarus as a story about what Jesus can do. The miracle is real and it matters. But what do you do in the four days before it.

A look at the story of the blind beggar in the Gospel of John. It's after the miracle that things get interesting. The authorities needed to keep him where he was.