Photo by Daan Stevens on Unsplash. In today’s Gospel, Jesus offers a prayer just before he is arrested. While the Synoptic Gospels record the agony in the garden, when Jesus’ followers fall asleep as ...
Jesus goes to the shore of the Sea of Galilee to call his first disciples. In this episode, we walk with Jesus on the shore as he encounters a group of fishermen. After preaching to the crowd, he ...
“I will follow you wherever you go” (Luke 9:55). The readings for this Sunday display an intensity and urgency associated with vocation that few of us could claim. Elisha is recruited by the prophet ...
We learn in Mark 1, as Jesus walked beside the Sea of Galilee, He saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send ...
This Sunday many churches will read the story of Jesus calling four fishermen to follow him and become his first disciples ...
Ethan Maple is lead pastor of Mt. Comfort Church. Easter may be behind us, but the power of Jesus’ resurrection remains. As I was going over the Gospel accounts of Jesus’ miraculous triumph over sin ...
The official liturgical season of “Christmas” is intense but short. We are already back in Ordinary Time (until the beginning of Lent on Feb. 17). Last Sunday’s Gospel, recounting the Baptism of Jesus ...
This Sunday many churches will read the story of Jesus calling four fishermen to follow him and become his first disciples ...