The Unionists

What an indescribable joy to gather with so many of you at the new version of Anchor -- a standalone, Sunday evening fellowship! May we learn to encounter Jesus just as His first friends did!

The beginning of the New Beginning.

The Cross.

The trial and sentencing before the Roman governor.

The religious stage of His trial, and the betrayal of Peter.

An imagined conversation with a witness to the dark hour at Gethsemane...

The plot of the chief priests, the cunning of Judas Iscariot, and the final dinner with Jesus and His disciples.

Following in the footsteps of one particular Passover-week participant; plus words up on the Mount of Olives.

Tuesday afternoon of Passover week in the Temple. Three very different approaches to Jesus—and His three responses.

How the Word of God viewed His prophets: their lives, and their deaths. A parable.

A withered fig tree, a wrecked Court of the Gentiles, and an unanswered question, as perhaps seen and heard from the vantage of three different men.

The night before, and the day of, Jesus' glorious Passover-week entry into the capital.

For the third time, Jesus speaks of the Cross and Resurrection; James and John make their play for Kingdom-prominence; and a blind man gains both sight and his life's purpose.

How a turning-point in the life of Socrates is almost perfectly mirrored by our opportunity in these particular days.

The Rich Young Ruler, both before and long after.

Q: Could there be anything better than our life in Jesus? A: No.  

A journey (possibly through Sychar in Samaria?) toward a teaching and a time of blessing.

A voice from the 4th Century reaches forward to us and gives us a glorious reminder.

A walk, a talk, and a conversation back in Capernaum.

A little poetry inspired by a poem from Siegfried Sassoon.

The scene, at the base, of the Mount of Transfiguration.

The age-old question of "Faith & Works," as viewed through the lens of Jesus' words in John 7—and in Tolstoy—and in George MacDonald.

The glory of the glory of the Transfiguration.

Twice-opened eyes, a confession, and a rebuke.

A thought on being and becoming the Body of His-Whose-We-Are.

Engaging with a familiar miracle, and the questioning of the Pharisees, while asking the question: "But will they remember?"

Hearing two testimonies, years later, from those who were there; were healed.

A revealing juxtaposition of: What Jesus was up to in western Galilee vs. What the Pharisees wanted to talk to Him about.

A crowd's journey toward a miraculous supper; Jesus' miraculous journey out across the waters.

The background and circumstances surrounding the death of John, cousin of Jesus, known as "The Baptist."

Using a little of Luke and Matthew's vantages, a glimpse of both a homecoming and a sending-out.

An imagined perspective from the office, to a house-call, of a local Galilean doctor; then the 12-year realities changed forever by Jesus.

10 minutes before, 10 years before, and 10 years after an unbelievable incident on the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee...

More parables spoken at eveningtide of the same day, plus the living parable that was the storm and the calm...

Stepping into the sandals of an unnamed disciple to hear, with different ears, a very familiar parable and its later interpretation.

Two very different groups converge upon a small house near the Galilee, and are greeted by the very same Man.

Another healing in the synagogue, another mass-healing—down at the water's edge—and the early morning calling of the Twelve high on the hillside.

Walking with Him as He walks up from the shoreline to the tax-collector's table, then to Levi's house, then through controversy, and also through the cornfields.

An imagined pre-conversation to the events of Mark 2:1-13 -- the re-arrival to Capernaum, a full house for a teaching, and the unexpected arrival of four friends with their paralyzed friend.

The perspective from a sickbed in Capernaum, then the whole town's, then Jesus alone, and then one on one with a leper.

John's arrest, the Galilean beginnings, the first four callings, and a scene inside the synagogue at Capernaum.

The beginning of a new year and a "literary," imaginative approach to the opening of the Gospel of Mark.

Saying goodbye to the Book of Romans as Paul says "Hello!" to his friends.

The spirit of the Early Church, the spirit of the Spirit(!), and Paul's Calling/Ambition/Look-back.

The Major, the minors, The Ultimate, and penultimate things.

A chapter that challenges much of what we think we think about "American Christianity."

Experiencing the One whose Body we're learning to become.

Grafted branches on the Tree of Life and the inexpressible wisdom of God, explored.

A "mirroring" poem of the New Covenant, Paul's spiritual eyes, and his spiritual vision for others.

The ABC's of belief (admitting, believing and confessing) that Jesus is absolutely everything.

As you'll hear, a little overwhelmed!