We may not be what we think of as first-choice candidates, but God may have the just-right job for us. 

Are we fools to aspire to be so much better than we actually are?

At first, when I heard her, I was a bit embarrassed because nobody else was saying “Amen.” But after some reflection, I have come to agree with her.

Endure. Persevere. Be steadfast. Hold fast. Be patient. Different ways of saying the same thing—a thing we have a really tough time doing. And it’s not supposed to be an arduous slog—it’s actually supposed to be joyful!

Fed by bread, we live temporarily.  Fed by the Word, we can live forever.

He was waiting, I thought, for someone to arrive, and he clearly had no intention of missing him when he came. 

An imagining based on Matthew 1:18-25 and Luke 2:1-16

Just because you don’t see an idol, doesn’t mean we don’t have a God.

We look at how John's gospel was the most spiritually profound and insightful of all the four.

We all know that, spiritually, our attention should always be on our Lord.  And we also know that our attention wavers. 

That great sign in rising from the dead is still the thing that increases faith.

These words of Jesus are very familiar. He spoke them at the “last supper”... But it wasn’t only a meal. It was the final teaching...