Paul wants us to live with concern for the discipleship of others. This is part of a larger discussion of the uses and abuses of freedom. We have been…
It’s been two thousand years; the time is always short. Our time is short. We have less than we had; we don’t get more. Instead of that being a…
About all I remember of high school health class was sex education, trying to remember and write down what I ate in a week, and a film about a…
Simeon and Anna are the closest thing Jesus has to grandparents, and what grandparents! Both are at the Temple. Though it was my parents who first took me to…
I’ve been speaking about joy and light lately, not only because it’s Advent, not only because I feel the need for these blessings in my own life, but because…
Perhaps there are times when it seems, feels, like my preaching gets preoccupied with fallen humanity—those are the times, I guess, when it sounds like I’m ranting, judging, condemning,…
The prediction business is deeply flawed, because we are deeply flawed, and our wishes easily worm their way into our predictions. Scientists have long understood that the presence of…
Jesus came to do many interwoven things. Jesus came for one reason. We get it when people aren’t interested in Jesus despite our efforts—half-hearted or whole-hearted—our attempts to share…
God shall supply all your need. I never grow tired of hearing that. I rejoice when I hear that! Those words speak in the emptiest parts of me and…
Paul gives an overview of the life to which Christ calls us here and hereafter. Jesus speaks of himself as the way to the hereafter. Paul calls us to…