Luke 15:1-10 Preachers salivate when the fifteenth chapter of Luke shows up. Who cannot warm to the shepherd who hits the hills to find...

Deuteronomy 6:4-9 Mark 12:28-34 As a young Jew, Jesus would have grown up saying the Shema twice a day, the reminder from the book of...

Luke 14:1, 7-14 It was the last week of my senior year in high school. My two best friends and I were seated in a hot, overcrowded...

Jeremiah 1:4-10 The most frequently asked question of any pastor I know, including this one, is: “How were you called into ministry?” It...

Revelation 7:9-17 Toward the end of Samuel Beckett’s play, Waiting for Godot, Vladimir asks Pozzo: “What do you do when you fall far from...

I Corinthians 1:1-9 The ancient city of Corinth had quite a reputation. “From the time of Aristophanes on,” writes Frederick Buechner,...

Text: Luke 10:25-37 Deep in the interior of Haiti stands a huge, modern medical complex known as the Good Samaritan Hospital. The news...

Text: Psalm 39 Some psalms soar. “Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in...

Text: Luke 7:36-8:3 “Paint a picture of the church.” As a child, you take things quite literally, concretely. So, that is how I took my...

Text: Genesis 1:1-3 The year was 1925. The place was Dayton, Tennessee. The occasion was the trial of a biology teacher, John Scopes. The...