Poor Jimmy Carter. You just know there’ll be trouble when you get interviewed for Playboy magazine. Why would anyone agree to that interview? Back in 1976, Carter mentioned—confessed—to the reporters…
In Boston in 1770, Perez Morton penned these words: “When Jesus wept, the falling tear in mercy flowed beyond all bound. When Jesus groaned, a trembling fear seized all the…
“One in heart and mind” (4:32) is how we speak of people close as can be. We tend to reserve that sort of talk for those very much in love. …
I suppose we each have a picture of how the church ought to be, including this little congregation of it. No one’s picture looks just like the church as it…
The world seemed awfully vast and rather hostile to those eleven men on their way to Galilee. What did Jesus want to say to them there? What did he want…
There are mornings when I wake up about an hour before sunrise without even meaning to. Oh, I try to roll over and get back to where I was, wherever…
I wish they had been walking by a field, maybe at sowing time. As it is, “they were walking along the road” (9:57). It’s a dirt road. The road is…
“[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…
There is a qualitative difference in one who has been claimed by the faith, by the Spirit. God’s love looks like something; faith looks like something. There is a…
“Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God” (4:7). Everyone who loves. Well, then. If someone…