The Fourth Sunday in Lent 1 Samuel 16:1 - 13 A Sunday School class was studying Jesus’ disciples.  The teacher told the class that Jesus reached out and chose ordinary, everyday people—fishermen, tax collectors, sinners all. Then he asked the class, “What does this tell you about Jesus?” hoping they would recognize the amazing grace of Jesus calling ordinary, very human people to do extraordinary things. One of the boys answered, “It tells me Jesus was a lousy judge of character.”  And maybe he was! In fact, throughout the Bible, God consistently chooses the wrong kind of people. Adam [READ MORE]

The Fourth Sunday in Lent  John 9:1-25 “Rabbi, who sinned – this man or his parents – that he was born blind?” That’s the question the disciples put to Jesus one day when they encountered this man begging by the side of the road. Unable to work and provide a living of his own, the man was dependent upon the generosity of others. And I think the disciples felt badly that it was so. In their journey with Jesus they had been discovering all sorts of wonderful things about the love of God for people. And more and more, [READ MORE]