Text: Job 38 I ran into Job while I was on leave a year ago. He looked like he had not slept for weeks and his typically...

Text: John 13:1-9 From the 16th century Reformation until today, churches have battled over the number of sacraments. In the Catholic...

Luke 15:11-32 I love the American folksinger Carrie Newcomer. I first heard her music some years back at a church conference in...

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...