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Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. 7 When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” 8 Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.John 8:6b-8 Having raised a daughter and a non-binary child, there were several times when my parental instincts and my feminism and allyship clashed. This happened frequently during their middle school and hig

Be merciful to those who doubt – Jude verse 22 The book of Jude is a single-chapter letter, so the chapter from where this comes is the whole book. And while Jude was very eager to talk about salvation in this one chapter epistle, he instead spends time warning the reader about the immoral teachers that were circulating among them, sowing a message that was contrary to the talking about the extravagant grace of God. Jude was writing to a community in conflict. And like any

How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news. – Romans 10:15b The spouse who sits bed side in the emergency room, staring into the eyes of their beloved, holding them in love to ease their discomfort and uncertainty. The cafeteria worker who puts a little extra pudding on the tray of a child whose school lunch debt was paid off and the anonymous donor who gave up his prison earnings so that a kid could eat. The older sibling picking up their younger sister from t

Let us run with perseverance the race that lies before us, looking to Jesus, the pioneer and perfector of faith – Hebrews 12:1-2 On my daily early-morning walk, I found Jesus (okay, it’s not what you think, but I’ve always wanted to write a sentence just like that). As I was making my way across the Doubletree Ranch Trail lake bridge over a small portion of Lake Lewisville, I spotted Jesus. He was a very small rubber figurine, less than 1” tall, of a very white-skinned, lon

Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—when you see the naked, to clothe them, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood? – Isaiah 58:7 Have you ever seen those memes on social media about travel? They say something like: How many cities or states or countries have you been to? – or – Give yourself a point for every National Park you’ve visited – or – Are you a world traveler? How many countries have you visited? Th

So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconci

You are the God who sees me. Genesis 16:13 In Genesis 16, Abram and Sarai wrestle with the tension between God's promise and their present reality. As they wait for the child God has promised—a descendant whose family would one day outnumber the stars—they pursue a human solution to accomplish what God had pledged to do. And as the waiting became painful, Sarai proposed a solution that seemed practical: Abram would have a child through Hagar, her servant. What followed was