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...

Text: Ezekiel 37:1-14 My grandfather attended the Newport News Apprentice School soon after the First World War. He then went to work for...

Texts: Jeremiah 31:15; Matthew 19:14 Novelist Flannery O’Connor once wrote, “If you believe in the divinity of Christ, you have to...

Text: Acts 9:36-42 A Christmas tradition in the Charles household is watching a version of or reading Dickins’, A Christmas Carol. The...

Text: Genesis 2:8-9, 15-17; Mark 15:21-24; Revelation 22:1-4 For all those mothers, grandmothers, aunts, special women who have shaped...

Text: John 21:15-19 I grew up in a time when Presbyterians did not know what to do with Maundy Thursday or Good Friday. It was as if the...