Mark Whittall

Life is a tug of war between testing and trust. When you are in the wilderness, will you test or will you trust? And in whom will you...

Have you ever noticed that in our culture we tend to see things as either/or rather than both/and? We like dichotomies: this or that,...

“My sheep hear my voice.” Can you hear God’s voice in the midst of all the other voices competing for our attention? It’s not always...

We’ve reached the turning point in the gospel of Mark, and there is a pattern that is repeated three times. Three times, Jesus announces...

There are moments that matter. Moments where we no longer think of time as 10am on a Sunday morning, but rather we think of critical...

Have you ever looked for the territories of Zebulun and Naphtali on a map? If you have a smartphone you can try it if you like. Type in...

Did you hear the alarm go off? This is a wake-up call. Will you do something about it before it’s too late? In today’s gospel, Jesus...

We live in a world of competing demands, and for the most part, we’re pretty good at it. We are, after all, the multi-tasking generation....

A long time ago I used to be a summer camp counselor. I used to teach canoeing, and I remember one day I was out in the canoe with three...

Jesus says, “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.” That’s rough. That’s a...