T.J. Lucas

Writer: Rev. T.J. Lucas Monday Manna   For Palm Sunday, we reflected on what it means to live in a loud world and still be formed by the quiet power of God. So often we are quick to speak, to react, to name something as truth before we have actually stopped long enough to listen. We talked honestly about the power of the tongue, and how words can carry either life or death. That has been an ongoing theme in this Lenten journey because words have power to shape our world within and beyond. It...

🌿 Monday Manna 🌿 Rev. T.J. Lucas For the Fifth Sunday in Lent, we stepped into the story where Jesus declares, “I am the resurrection and the life.” But what we saw in that story wasn’t just about Lazarus. It was about sight. Everyone in the story was seeing something real… but not something whole. The sisters saw sickness and loss. The disciples saw danger. Thomas saw death. The crowd saw grief. And Jesus saw something else entirely. He saw glory where they saw endings. He saw timing where...

For the Fourth Sunday in Lent, we continued the “I Am”  sermon series with the video clip above where Jesus heals the blind man and then the religious leaders begin investigating the miracle. Even before the healing happens, the disciples ask the question many of us still ask when suffering appears: Who sinned?  Was it this man or his parents that caused him to be born blind? Jesus refuses that framework. He answers that this man was born as he was so that the works of God might be revealed...