It doesn’t exactly feel as if my demons have submitted yet, but maybe they just want me to think they haven’t. The truth is they’re done. They’ve lost. They aren’t…
Paul’s first letter to Timothy is a reminder—a plea—to the church to stay focused on advancing, making progress. The church makes progress as it holds fast to the Word of…
It takes a long time, in most cases, for the Word of God to sink into a person’s heart. It has for me! There’s so much there, already! Certainly, we…
Two by two. Why pairs? I get why Jesus didn’t send them each alone. I have many plans to serve the Lord, beloved. Plans. Hopes. Dreams. It’s good to…
Sometimes, to go forward, we have to go back. The first steps on the long journey to the cross, the tomb, and Easter take Jesus and us into the wilderness. …
Today is a day for wrapping up. Next Sunday, I’ll start telling the story from the top once again. What crowns the story, its conclusion and vision, is Christ…
Jesus reminds us to be humble, to seek humility, to learn it and grow in it. We praise beauty; we praise excellence; we praise performance. Humility is more worthy of…
So, eighteen years is a long time, bent over, suffering, for eighteen years. Then there’s Jesus. Maybe she always went to synagogue on Sabbath. Maybe she was there that Sabbath…
Wise men. Scripture tells us they are (2:1, NRSV, ESV, RSV). What made them wise? What do we know about them? We know they studied the stars. Why? I mean,…
Salvation Is to Be Found through Him Alone—Ac 4:5-12 Peter and John have gotten themselves arrested at the Temple. They’re at the house of the Lord, the house of prayer,…