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Only putting this here because I won’t be able to read my own handwriting. Broken Everywhere I look, I see brokenness. Our planet is broken. Our economy is broken. We throw away the unborn We throw away the old We throw away the workers we call heroes but don’t pay We throw away the women
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“You’re off the list!” When I worked with the Devil Rays, there was a guy in our sales group who, whenever he was upset with someone for some small grievance, would bellow “You’re off the list,” and summarily cross them off of his interoffice phone list. This happened a lot, almost always for pretty inconsequential
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What do you get to do, and what do you have to do? Have you ever made a list of the things you do in a day or week, big and small, and sorted them out between the things you get to do and the things you have to do? The guys who started Life
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In Mark 14, you get the story of the woman at Bethany who pours a whole jar of perfume on Jesus’ head and gets praised for it. (In fact, I’m always struck by 14:9 and its equivalents: “[W]herever the gospel is preached all over the world, what she has done will be told in memory
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I’ve hit the part of Mark that recounts Holy Week, and while there are still plenty of things to notice there, since those stories get so much focus every year, less jumps off the page to me as fresh and new. But Mark 13:32-37 is one of those passages where Jesus tells the disciples to
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Mark 11:11 is a verse I never noticed. At the end of the Palm Sunday parade, Jesus enters Jerusalem, goes into the Temple, “and looked around at everything. But since it was already late in the day, he went out to Bethany with the 12 disciples.” It sounds like he changed his mind because of
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Mark 10:42-45 – “So Jesus called them all together to him and said, ‘You know that those who are considered rulers of the heathen have power over them, and the leaders have complete authority. This, however, is not the way it is among you. If one of you wants to be great, you must be
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There’s a really neat, beautiful line in Mark 10, after Jesus tells the rich man to give everything to the poor and the guy slinks away instead. Jesus laments how hard it is for the rich to be saved, which is 180 degrees from what everyone though then (well, and now, if you’re a fan
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He might be a dark horse candidate, but if I could pick one apostle to meet and talk with, it might be Andrew. And I’d ask him about the journey he must have gone through of burying his ego. In the synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke), Andrew and Peter get picked together, brothers summoned
Reading Francis 