Brenna shared yesterday how she’d grown up being critical of Nicodemus. He didn’t even have the guts to show up in the day time, to be loud and proud about his faith journey. But then she shared how, of late, she’s had more compassion for Nicodemus.

As we wrap up the first week of Lent, take some time to reflect on the beginning of this 40-day season. Sit with this prayer, this poem. What stirs in you? What hopes for this season? What temptations to merely hover?

There are two types of spiritual practices: subtracting and adding. When you put them together they are particularly powerful.

If we quiet down our bodies and minds, it doesn’t take long for the voices to surface. On Sunday we took some time to ponder how Jesus spent time in the desert and had to contend with the same sorts of voices we do.

Dottie Oleson explores three different needs she had in her season of pregnancy, inviting us to consider what our needs are now.

This season leading up to Easter, called Lent, is pregnant with potential. Are you tapping into it?

Sometimes we’re so focused ‘upward’ on God that we miss how God is calling us to be grounded in the work of doing justice here on the ground.

Plunging into the depths with God can be both an experience of sadness and great comfort.

Seeking is a huge theme in the scriptures. We’re going on a journey together this Lent to seek - to ask - to be curious - and to grow.

Jesus often asks, “What do you want?” Rarely do we know ourselves (or have the courage) to answer honestly.

Listen to Jon and Valerie Guerra’s gorgeous song as an invitation to meditate on the words of Jesus.

Paul writes that freedom is not always free - we have to fight for it sometimes.

So often we externalize the issue of poverty. Today, challenged by the book of James, we try to get in touch with it very personally.

American Christians often quote “Blessed are the poor in spirit” and ignore Jesus’s other words: “Blessed are the poor.”

This is the powerful, heart-breaking prayer that was sung over us at the end of the service on Sunday.

The gospel of John talks about believing, and that’s had a huge impact on the church in America. The other three gospels talk a lot more about following… which we might want to pay attention to.

There are incidents in the gospels where Jesus did not completely heal someone on the first try. He had to try again. And so do we.

We talk about God being love, but what does that mean?