If I Just Touch His Clothes

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Every day during this season of Lent we’re looking at the miracles of Jesus – his spectacular displays of supernatural power that are reported in the Gospels.     Among the documents that archaeologists have recovered from the ancient world is this personal letter from a Roman official to his pregnant wife:… Read more »

The Second Touch

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Every day during this season of Lent we’re looking at the miracles of Jesus – his spectacular displays of supernatural power that are reported in the Gospels.     One of the signature stories from my family of origin concerns a road trip that my mom, dad, and younger brother Bruce took to New… Read more »

Passing the Test

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Every day during this season of Lent we’re looking at the miracles of Jesus – his spectacular displays of supernatural power that are reported in the Gospels.     The Gospels are not like Facebook pages for Jesus. A Facebook page is essentially a highlight reel of your life.  It displays your cutest pictures with… Read more »

Jesus and the Canaanite Woman

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Every day during this season of Lent we’re looking at the miracles of Jesus – his spectacular displays of supernatural power that are reported in the Gospels.     Officially, there are no Untouchables in the nation of India. The so-called “caste for people who are unworthy of being in a caste” was banished by… Read more »

The Four-Gospel Miracle

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Every day during this season of Lent we’re looking at the miracles of Jesus – his spectacular displays of supernatural power that are reported in the Gospels.     A number of years ago I read about a very large church that sponsored a special Sunday morning event: “Feed the 5,000 Day.”  The first 5,000… Read more »

A Miracle and a Scandal

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Every day during this season of Lent we’re looking at the miracles of Jesus – his spectacular displays of supernatural power that are reported in the Gospels.     Every family has its own traditions.  Some of them can be pretty strange. For multiple generations, the McDonalds have believed – OK, it’s just the men… Read more »

Time to Wake Up

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Every day during this season of Lent we’re looking at the miracles of Jesus – his spectacular displays of supernatural power that are reported in the Gospels.     If you’re a parent, and your child is seriously ill, nothing else matters. You would move heaven and earth to find the right… Read more »

The Least, the Last, and the Lost

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Every day during this season of Lent we’re looking at the miracles of Jesus – his spectacular displays of supernatural power that are reported in the Gospels.     In his book Final Words, Adam Hamilton, senior pastor of the Church of the Resurrection in Kansas City, recalls a conversation that happened years ago… Read more »

One Little Word

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Every day during this season of Lent we’re looking at the miracles of Jesus – his spectacular displays of supernatural power that are reported in the Gospels.     Is there anything worse than a violent, demon-possessed lunatic? There sure is, according to Bible scholar Mark Strauss – “a naked, violent, demon-possessed lunatic.” That’s exactly… Read more »

Truth Encounters

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Every day during this season of Lent we’re looking at the miracles of Jesus – his spectacular displays of supernatural power that are reported in the Gospels.     In his book The Dust of Death, theologian and social critic Os Guinness recounts a trip he made from his home in Switzerland to England,… Read more »