“[T]he eternal Son of God was a guest at a feast.”[1] You could do worse than to have Jesus as a guest at your celebration. I haven’t been sure how…
Maybe you’ve heard the phrase “Put it in writing”? Get it in black and white: not just words in the air, but something we can hold on to, show others—a…
Peter isn’t happy about what’s going to happen to Jesus. Neither are we. Suffer? Killed? Terrible! Let’s be followers without the suffering. In seminary, no one quite knew what…
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…
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…
The way to progress and joy in the faith is Christ. Obviously. But Paul is sharing with us some of the mystery of knowing Christ and having him in us. …
“For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain” (1:21). When’s the last time you said that? What does he mean? In his letter to the faithful…
Do you want to laugh? Do you want to cry? Maybe both? If you have come to this Presbyterian church from another expression of Christian faith, you probably have figured…
Jesus tells us the meek will inherit the earth. They will be the ones to enjoy the fulfillment of the promise when the new heaven and the new earth come.…
Paul and Silas, still in Philippi, encounter a girl, a slave girl. That wasn’t unusual. This slave girl is possessed; a spirit is in her, that, as spirits do, reveals…