Today's Gospel reading takes us into the wilderness with Jesus, where He faces three powerful temptations from the devil after forty days and nights of fasting. This passage, read every year on th...
Jesus sees Levi sitting at his tax boothโa man despised by his community, considered a collaborator with Roman oppression, a symbol of greed and betrayal. Yet Jesus doesn't walk past him. He doesn...
The disciples of John the Baptist approach Jesus with a straightforward inquiry: "Why do we and the Pharisees fast, while your disciples do not fast?" On the surface, this seems like a reasonable ...
The Cost of Discipleship
Jesus doesn't sugarcoat what following Him means. He speaks plainly about His own suffering and death, then immediately turns to His disciples with an equally stark messag...
The Problem of Performance
Jesus addresses a tendency that remains as relevant today as it was two thousand years ago: the temptation to turn our spiritual lives into a performance. Whether throug...