Category Archives: Spiritual Formation

Real People of Pentecost

We can easily forget that the Bible’s stories involve real people in real places at a real time in history. On Sunday, we celebrate yet another one of those: Pentecost….

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The Myth Theory

For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 2…

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Jesus’ Cry to His Father

Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” And having said this he breathed his last. Luke 23:46  In Jesus’s final prayer from the…

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It Is Finished (Luke 23:34)

You have most likely read more than a few articles on the last words of Jesus. Like liturgy, they may seem at times to become ‘old hat.’ But the Spirit…

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The Fourth Word

Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli,…

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