One of the last ‘lessons’ Jesus taught his disciples was an ‘object lesson’.  He washed their feet. This was a task for a slave or servant – not the Master.  Yet in that washing Jesus demonstrated, he illustrated in a very concrete way was he was soon to accomplish on the cross. In his trial […]

“Unless a grain of wheat falls in the ground and dies, it abides alone…”  This is the paradox that Pastor Dan had as his focus today. Just as the kernel of wheat: if it wants to retain its identy, its essence, it remains simply a seed.  But if it ‘dies’ in the soil, it becomes […]

The fifth Sunday in Lent. This week Jesus is revealed, or perhaps better, God’s glory is revealed through Jesus.  A dear friend dies supposedly because Jesus doesn’t arrive in time. But wait…  “Your brother will rise again!” … What an amazing event.  Those who believed saw the glory of God. Those who would not believe […]

Lent. Jesus is being revealed.  This week Pastor Dan’s sermon on the “man blind from birth” shows how Jesus is revealed to those who are blind, and hidden from those with ‘sight’.

Jesus is revealed in a way many of his day would never have anticipated. He engaged a non-Jewish person, and a woman at that!  Unheard of! Yet he does so with grace and compassion – treating her as he has those who have come before in John’s gospel.