View from the Ambo/Mercy With Teeth

The Pharisee and the Publican could equally be understood as the braggart and the beggar... The pharisee is in front, boasting to God all t...

We are asked to be persistent in prayer, not because God does not hear or is unjust, but to show our faith. The persistent widow in the par...

The healing of the ten lepers is usually reduced to some statement on only 10% being grateful, but there is more to the episode than that. T...

The Disciples ask the Lord to increase their faith, and Jesus responds with if they had faith the size of a mustard seed, they could say to ...

This weekend, we hear the parable of the Rich man and Lazarus. This, by the way, is the only parable that Jesus tells that has a character ...

We cannot serve two masters. When we try to discern God's will for our lives, if we think that we can serve God and yet live in the wor...

The parable of the prodigal son is a classic parable that so often is simply dismissed as "yeah, I know that story." This weekend...