How can they say that the Christ is the son of David? For David himself says in the Book of Psalms: 

The Lord declared to my Lord, 

‘Sit at my right hand
until I make your enemies
your footstool.’ 

David…

Inspired by Luke 20:27-40

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. 

       — Genesis 2:24 ESV 

The children of this age marry and are given in…

Inspired by Luke 20:1-8 

One day, as Jesus was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes with the elders came up and said to him, "Tell us by what authority you…

Inspired by Luke 19:45-48 

They came to Jerusalem, and [Jesus] went into the temple and began to throw out those buying and selling. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves, and would…

Inspired by Luke 18:35-43 and Ephesians 2:8-9 

I think I need forgiveness 
Think I need more than the rest 
Think I need just not to know 
Think I need a hospital 

— Michael Knott, “Hospital” 

Your faith has made…

Inspired by Luke 18:1-8 

And [Jesus] told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. 

           — Luke 18:1 ESV 

Just think of it:
Justice isn’t just 
For the just. 

Just keep at…

Inspired by 1 Kings 19:9-13; Genesis 1:1-3; John 1:1-3, 3:8 

Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, [Jesus] answered them, “The kingdom of God is not coming with something observable; no one will say, ‘See…

WHEN MAN WAS FIRST BORN, SOMEWHERE IN EAST AFRICA, he began to walk. He was splendidly equipped to do so. He had long, straight hind limbs, bad for climbing trees, but excellent for hoisting up his head so that he…

For some reason 

Eternity seems closer these days, 

A welcome reprieve from the 

Rigid mortality and monotony of temporal existence. 

Now I understand the stationing 

Of the guardians at the gates of Eden, defending 

T…

Justice is forgiveness—
it is surely heard 
in the bishop's song 
to the con Jean Valjean; 

for the brave melody 
he sings to the cops— 
that climbs like a prayer—
is the same sung by Javert:

the restless pursuer,
that…

Oh, the drama! 
Oh, how tragic!
That one would die
of a heaving cough
while playing a
hypochondriac. 

Oh, what irony! 
What a discovery!
How Argan's ghost must
have swooned upon seeing
his imagined malady
was not so imaginary.

_________

…

A crush betrays you—
your heart turns your face red
as you laugh off the truth
like a child who just
pulled his hand out
of the cookie jar
Mommy told him
not to touch before dinner.

Your lukewarm coffee…