Posts by Tom Hoopes

Visit your baptismal font this Sunday. It changed everything.

If you have gone through the darkness I have gone through — and, if you’re human, you have — I have hope for you. A hard hope, but that just makes it

What do you do when the wind is raging? When you’re caught in a storm, and suddenly you see Christ walking on the water? What do you do when He calls out

Now that we have been at it for 18 days, Jesus comes to us to double check that our Lent is on the right track, via the Woman at the Well.

If Lent’s not going well, don’t worry. We see the perfect description of the “journey” of Lent every Friday in the Stations of Cross.

Today we’re going to talk about the multiplication of the loaves, a story that is told in all four gospels because it made such a huge impression on the apostles. The story

The Apostles would have known exactly what the transfiguration meant. Do we?

Decline, decrease, and decadence is not the story of Christianity in our time. This is.

After a last visit home to Nazareth Jesus sends his apostles out two by two with very specific instructions those very specific instructions can help each of us break out of our

This Sunday the Gospel is all about three different encounters with the devil: First, in the Garden of Eden; second, in the desert — and, third, the one you just entered into this Lent.