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All Joy and Celebration

Coming This Week on the Daily Lectionary

Why Moses Matters

Did the First Christians Miss the Judaism They Grew Up In?

In Service to the World

Never Orphaned

Hope Over the Long Haul

The Bread of Tears

The Choicest Grapes

Coming This Week on the Daily Lectionary

Coded Kingdom Language

What Is Simony?

Aquinas on Virtue, Part 1 (Introduction)

Divine Love is Not Reserved for the Privileged

The Hardened Heart

Seeking Justice in the Justice System

The Imperfections of Reality

The God of No Appearances

Listen to My Voice

Coming This Week on the Daily Lectionary

Rest for a While

Just a Quick Note on Bible in a Year

Life in a First-Century Prison

Plain Truth for Plain People: The Folk Theology of John Wesley (Salvation by Faith, Sermon 1)

Divine Providence and Human Ingenuity

How Does the Gospel of Mark End?

Bridging Times: An Eclipse Observed with Grandchildren and Ancient Verses

The Little Letter of 2 John

Let Everything That Breathes Praise the Lord!

We Are the Children of God!

Coming This Week on the Daily Lectionary

More Than Silver and Gold

Changes Are Coming to "Faith Seeking Understanding"

In Evening's Quiet, I Seek Your Face

God Over all Gods

Seventy-Nine Years Ago Today

Spiritual Maturity

Who Was the Fourth Figure in the Fiery Furnace?

What Happened to Thomas?

Coming This Week on the Daily Lectionary

Speaking the Words of the Father

Who Were the Sadducees?

The Beauty of Wisdom and Knowledge

Psalm 118 and Easter

Can a Scientist Believe in the Resurrection?

The Mortal Body and Immortality

A "Spiritual Body"?

Taming the Wild Beasts

Coming This Week on the Daily Lectionary

A Great Silence

A Chance Encounter in a Divinely Orchestrated Drama

Divine Moments and Human Foibles

Seeing Through the Veil of Heartache and Betrayal

Who Is This Son of Man?

One Doesn't Have to Be a Nihilist to Stare Into the Abyss

Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary

Being Teachable in Order to Teach

Coming This Week on the Daily Lectionary

The Blindness of Those Who See

Humility, Sacrifice, and the Example of Christ

The Silver Tsunami

Preparing for the Passover

Who Was Haggai the Prophet?

Promises of Restoration

Plain Truth for Plain People: The Folk Theology of John Wesley (Introduction)

God Has Always Been God

It's All Perfectly Legal!

Coming This Week on the Daily Lectionary

What Is Selah?

The Beauty of Repentance

Entering Rest

Restoration and Glory

The Freedom That Must Consider Others

The Water That Refreshes

Look Up and Live

Coming This Week on the Daily Lectionary

A Lament for Aaron

Who Was Daniel?

Redemption

A Song of Longing

Who Was King Hezekiah?

Why the Temple?

All These Words

Coming This Week on the Daily Lectionary

Atop the Mountain

The Proclamation of Creation

Ecclesiastical Fraud and Tribalistic Idolatry

Does No One Care for Zion?

Holding on to Hope Unseen

A Mother's Joy

Receiving a New Name

Coming This Week on the Daily Lectionary

The Way of Discipleship Is Not All Sweetness and Light

Ishmael Gets a Nation Too

Caring for the Poor Is Not Optional

Embrace Humility and Trust in God

All Things in Their Time

Human Suffering, Divine Silence

Facing a World Not As It Should Be

Coming This Week on the Daily Lectionary

The Faithfulness of God.

Tickle My Ears, Please?

A Divine Visitation or Fake Feelingrama?

The Character of Community

On Not Making a Show of It

Why Ukraine Matters

Embrace the Divine Mystery

What Is Consecration?

Lifting the Veil

Coming This Week on the Daily Lectionary

When the Olive Branch Withers

The Chief of Sinners

Equipping Pastors in Cuba

Who Was Jeroboam?

Healing Savior

Who Was Barnabas?

Whisper the Ancient Stories

Becoming All Things to All People

Coming This Week on the Daily Lectionary

The Refusal to Believe

Cur Deus Homo

The Bible, Politics, and Imagination

Freedom for Obedience

Interpreting the Imprecatory Psalms

Balaam's Donkey Speaks

Who Was Balaam the Prophet?

Prophetic Qualifications

Jesus, Go Away!

A Church in a Place Where Satan Lives

Our Holiness Heritage

Did God Hate Esau?

Calling Twelve Apostles

Grace and Embrace

In Times of Storm, We Turn to You

Who Were the Ninevites?

Coming This Week on the Daily Lectionary

Let's Face It: At Times Jesus Is Just Not Nice

Who Are the Scoffers?

The Potter's Prerogative

Incline Your Ear, O Lord

Honesty Matters

What Is a Prophetic Frenzy?

Our Fleshly Temple

The Importance of Intercession?

Coming This Week on the Daily Lectionary

Jesus, the Fulfillment of Israel's Story

You've Searched Me Through and Through

To Be Rescued from the Perils of the Sea

Why Anoint?

Justified by Faith/fulness

What Is the Baptism of the Lord?

Coming This Week on the Daily Lectionary

The Mystery Now Revealed

Keeping Up with Jesus

A Good Name

Speaking Christian in Today's World

Tomorrows That May Never Be

A Divine Messiah

What Is a Proverb?

My New Year's Resolutions for 2024

Happy New Year!