Come and See
“The woman left her water jar beside the well and ran back to the village, telling everyone, ‘Come and see a man who told me everything I ever did! Could he possibly be the Messiah?’” John 4:29. She was an unnamed Samaritan woman, harshly judged, an outcast, making her way to Jacob’s Well alone. Jesus […]
The Decision
A few months have passed since my brother’s death. He was eleven months older than me. It’s the end of an era when you lose a sibling. You knew them when… I knocked him out cold with a baby doll when I was five. – those 1950’s Tiny Tears had hard heads. We joked that […]
What a Powerful Name
It was getting late. My fingers were freezing from the howling Michigan wind. It was almost time to go back to the warm building to debrief with the others. Then I saw Raymond. He was moving toward Ed with angry words and a puffed-up chest. Ed was a sweet, frail man staying at the men’s […]
The Woman at the Well of Life
There was a woman of Samaria. Her people so scorned her that she was forced to come alone at the hottest part of the day to get water. The other women enjoyed the protection and friendship of one another. (John 4) She meets a Jewish man, named Jesus, who asks her to give Him a […]
Communion
There are two paintings entitled Supper at Emmaus. One, by Caravaggio (1601), hangs in the National Gallery in London, and the other, a Rembrandt (1648), commands a prominent place in the Louvre. Rembrandt had never seen any painting by Caravaggio. However, both capture the shock of the disciples who suddenly recognize they are with the […]