WESLEY ARNING

To grow deeper with Jesus is to grow wiser. And I think that’s because, in a relationship with Jesus, we are first invited, and then command

Saints are like the Church’s runway lights. They are lights in the darkness that help lead people to safety and to our ultimate destination.

Our soul will take on the shape of whatever character we allow to be impressed upon us. We are wax being formed in the image of whatever we

The Feast Day of St. Michael and All Angels forces us to think bigger; to not put a limit on the infinite simply because we cannot underst

It appears that Moses is being taught a lesson about leadership in the Kingdom of God. It is given in order to be given away; responsibility

As we see in this chapter, God is working quietly behind the scenes. He is working through a very fraught

Today’s reading is a great reminder of the totality of Jesus’ teaching, and a stern warning to anyone who assumes they know what’s going to

Obadiah pointed to a future that he could not fully see. He could glimpse a bright morning star in the distance, ever so faintly amid the

Neither Saul nor his bravest warriors are willing to enter the valley as Israel’s “man between” against the 9-ft-9-in Philistine.

There was a man, he said, who came to the entrance of a city, and he saw someone sitting at the gate and asked, “How goes it in the city?”

But the gift of language goes even further. What the Holy Spirit did that day and still does today is help us recover our first language.

There is an “otherness” to Jesus on this side of the grave, and it must be accepted that this is how it’s going to be. There’s no going back

The Christian message makes some outrageous claims if you think about it. We claim that the author of creation entered into our story.

Because of Jesus, and only because of Jesus, can death be both friend and foe. Death is no longer a judgment on God’s people because Jesus

At its purest level, the Temple in Jerusalem was meant to communicate God’s covenant faithfulness with his people. It would stand forever

Jesus was sandwiched seemingly between two worlds. The old world of Jerusalem and the new world of the Kingdom he was bringing about.

And time and again in his letter he has portrayed these two forms of wisdom as coming from above and below. The wisdom that comes from above

Paul explains to them that Christian baptism is “into Jesus.” Faith is not in the Holy Spirit, it’s in Jesus, but if you believe in Jesus

You are loved not because of anything that you bring to the table. Mary wasn’t known for her beauty, Joseph for his intelligence, or the

This longing to be freed, to be safe and made whole again is caught up in the division and darkness that is presently working in this