In the final movements before the cross, Luke leads us into a series of trials where the roles are strangely reversed. While Jesus stands as the accused before Peter, the Sanhedrin, Pilate, and Herod, it is actually the hearts of those around H...

The narrative of Luke 22 shifts from the communal atmosphere of the Upper Room to the isolated intensity of the Mount of Olives. While the Table was the site where the New Covenant was announced, Gethsemane was the site where that covenant was ...

This week, Joel invited us to consider the liminal space of the Upper Room. Here, the Old Covenant takes its final breath and the New Covenant bursts to life. Jesus orchestrates the meal with a strange, unmistakable sign: a man carrying a water...

This week, Joel focused in on the “cleansing of the Temple” in Luke 19. Jesus moves from weeping at the city gates into the Temple courts. While we often view the "cleansing of the Temple" as an act of rage, Luke reframes it as an act flowing o...

This week we explored Palm Sunday through Luke 19, where in the middle of the cheering crowds, Jesus weeps — because they were celebrating the wrong kind of salvation. They wanted a political conqueror; He came as a humble King bringing peace t...