This last Sunday of the year and next Sunday, we will be hearing some hard things: hard to hear, perhaps hard to accept. The starting point is this: why is…
We’re told Jesus goes up the mountain to pray (9:28). How often we read that Jesus prayed. Do we? Why did Jesus, the well-beloved Son of God, God incarnate, need…
It’s not really so easy to look at a baby and see the Word of God. Oh, we see a baby and think how precious and amazing—a baby most definitely…
The resurrection—one of the essentials of the Christian faith. I’m not really sure that a person can properly call him or herself a Christian without believing in Christ’s resurrection and…
You’d think, after what had happened there just the day before, the Temple officials would be on the lookout to bar Jesus from the Temple: strict orders to the gatekeepers. …
There are those who are convinced, those who will remain unconvinced, and others who just don’t know. What’s the necessary element, the catalyst, for conviction, for belief? In science, it’s…
I suppose there are those here who know of Marfa—so chic—but if you kept on driving along Highway 90, and driving and driving, like you really had to get to…
While my residence for many years was elsewhere, my hometown was Portland, Oregon. Should I say my hometown is Portland? I prefer was. The novelist wrote you can’t go home…
“[W]hen the sabbath was over” (16:1), the women bought what they needed to finish the unfinished burial rites. They couldn’t finish! The law made them unable to finish. The traditional…
On this day, we specially remember Jesus making his triumphal entry into Jerusalem, that God’s Word might be fulfilled. Today, we also conclude our time with Jonah. Jesus was asked…