Text: Genesis 25:19-34 Jacob had many nicknames, all of them well-earned: trickster, deceiver, conniver, but his earliest nickname was...

Text: John 16:16-24 I miss reading to my young children. There is much about raising young children that I do not miss at all – the...

Text: Acts 2:1-4 When Jesus is baptized in the Jordan, the Spirit of God descends on him like a dove. It is a calm, soothing image, an...

Text: John 15:9-17 I have been preaching for forty-four years now and I have never preached on the same text on two consecutive Sundays....

Text: John 15:9-17 The letter I am about to read is fictional. We do not know if the author of John’s Gospel, had a child or if he ever...

Text: Acts 8:26-39 Only weeks after the first Easter, Philip finds himself in the desert in the noonday heat. It is not long before an...

Text: Acts 1:15-26 Have you ever heard of a Christian apostle by the name of Justus? No worries. No one else has either. He gets one...

Text: John 21:2-19 (Read John 21:2-3) Simon Peter, Thomas called the Twin, Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee and two...

Text: John 20:1-18 There is something special about being known by name. There is something in the way a lover can say your name that...

Texts: Mark 10:47-48; 11:9; 15:13-14 Holy Week starts with a shout. But it is not the familiar shout of “Hosanna, loud hosanna!” heard...