Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ! Amen. “Pastor, how do I know that God is listening?” “Why doesn’t he answer my prayers?” “Do my prayers even make a difference?” These are the kinds of questions I hear from you with great regularity. And these are not […]

SAMARITAN LEPER: “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!” That was the first thing we said when we saw him—my fellow lepers and I. I don’t know if it was the right thing to say or the only thing to say. But that’s what we needed more than anything: mercy. I used to be a leper—something […]

Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.  Amen.  In today’s Gospel reading, Jesus seems to address various odds and ends of the Christian life: temptation, forgiveness, faith, and duty.  Yet one thread ties them all together: the theme of forgiveness.  Forgiveness is hard.  As C.S. Lewis writes […]