Have you ever been called? As rhetorical questions go, that isn’t a very good one. Everyone had been called. We have been called on the phone, called to the phone, called names, called to PASS THE BALL!!, called for dinner, the list is endless. We have been called by our parents, siblings, friends, partner(s), enemies, […]
Why do we want to know?
We humans seem to have some sort of built-in compulsion to know “why?” As someone once commented, “we want to know why, and we want to know why we want to know why, even though we never will” as what it means to be human. There is a subset of spiritually aware people who want […]
Called?
This Sunday’s texts are linked together, at least somewhat, by three different stories about what it means to be called, or more properly, “called.” This is more than getting a phone call or a text to come over and hang out. The calls we looked at today are the calls God makes to people. There […]