Text: Psalm 84 “Welcome home.” Those two simple words conjure up a rush of images. Many images are from my childhood – images of loved...

Genesis 32:4-22; 33:1-9 Esau was the first-born son, the child of privilege, a privilege he would never enjoy. For beginning in the birth...

Text: Luke 17:5-10 I like the Jesus I meet in the Gospels. I like it when I am exhausted and he says, “Come to me, all who labor and are...

Luke 16:19-31 Some memories never go away and maybe never should. For twelve years in Atlanta, I navigated fences and gates to get into...

Text: Luke 16:1-13 You are about to hear a perplexing story. So, make yourself as comfortable as you can on those old wooden pews. Set...

Text: Luke 15:1-10 What preacher does not love the fifteenth chapter of Luke? What preacher worth her salt cannot soar like an eagle...

Text: Luke 14:1, 7-14 The story begins with a leader of a major religious party in Judaism inviting Jesus to his dinner table. Just when...

Texts: Luke 2:8-10; Matthew 2:9-12 We were a NBC Nightly News family. Every weeknight after an always early dinner, we would sit in...

Text: Jeremiah 1:4-10 I spent my high school years in the land of pollsters who tell leaders which way public sentiment is blowing. They...

Text: Hebrews 11:1, 13-16 Some years ago, on a beautiful August day at the national conference center in Chautauqua, New York, I listened...