The previous week’s gospel reading, Luke 4:14-21, speaks powerfully of Jesus’ mission, a mission of liberation, forgiveness, and healing....

Matthew 13 records a number of Jesus’ parables. The parable of the weeds and wheat (vv. 24-30), with its seeds and farmer, invites...

In Romans 6, we find Paul dealing with the struggle of life in the overlap between two ages, two modes of existence. Christ died and has...