Text: Genesis 21:8-21 Every movie has a rating to inform the audience about the material they are about to view. I have often wondered if...

Text: Mark 4:35-41 The storm starts before a cloud is in the sky and before the boat has left the dock. The storm starts when Jesus tells...

Text: Mark 3:20-35 Jesus is home at last. No more mountain climbing, setting up tents, cooking over campfires, bonding with the boys. No...

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...