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Psalm 150; Acts 5:27-32; Revelation 1:4-8; John 20:19-31 IT IS AMAZING THAT the narrative of Jesus' new life-giving presence (John 20:19-31) generates bold apostolic preaching (Acts 5:27-32) that eventuates in [...]

Exodus 20:1-17; Psalm 19; 1 Corinthians 1:18-25; John 2:13-22 Genesis makes clear that God's decree is absolute when it comes to idolatry. The first commandment, to love God and God [...]

Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, developed her ideas about Christianity in conversation with literature and the work of radical hospitality. She often quoted the chapter from Dostoevsky's [...]

Mother's Day and Father's Day are at hand, so the calendar reminds us that even the secular world pays its respects to the divine commandment 'Honor your father and your [...]

God saw everything that He had made, and indeed, it was very good.-Genesis 1:31 And the Lord was sorry that He had made humankind on earth, and it grieved him [...]

Judges, Chapter 6 Though he was afraid, Gideon knew he had to make a great sacrifice, which could cost him everything. At peace with the Lord, Gideon went out and [...]

Psalm 23; Acts 9:36-43; Revelation 7:9-17; John 10:22-30 THE WORLD BELIEVES that we are finally in the grip of death. We spend our frightened energy trying to stay young and [...]

Isaiah 65:17-25; 1 Corinthians 15:19-26; Acts 10:34-43; John 20:1-18 THE NEWS OF Easter is that, in the resurrection of Jesus, God has broken all the vicious cycles of deathliness in [...]

I LOVE TO read the sermons of old preachers, especially those whose words have outlived them. A favorite of mine is J. Wallace Hamilton, who once preached a sermon titled [...]

Isaiah 52:13-53:12; Psalm 22; Hebrews 4:14-16, 5:7-9; John 18:1 -19:42 JESUS WAS EXECUTED by Roman authorities because his teaching was a threat to the established order of the socio-political system [...]

Joshua 5:9-12; Psalm 32; 2 Corinthians 5:16-21; Luke 15:1-3,11-32 LENT IS A time to ponder and receive the new life that God wants to give. All of these readings are [...]

Isaiah 55:1-9; Psalm 63:1-8; 1 Corinthians 10:1-13; Luke 13:1-9 LENT IS A time for making decisions about God's good news and our life in the world. The decisions pose the [...]

Isaiah 43:16-21; Psalm 126; Philippians 3:4-14; John 12:1-8 LENT IS A time to participate in the suffering and death of Christ, in order that we may be ready for the [...]

Esther 7:1-6, 9-10; 9:20-22; Psalm 124; James 5:13-20; Mark 9:38-50 WHEN THE DISCIPLES criticize someone for casting out demons in Jesus' name because the man "was not following us" (Mark [...]

Proverbs 1:20-33; Psalm 19; James 3:1-12; Mark 8:27-38 AT THE CRUX of the "crisis and confirmation" dilemma posed by Bravo, Jesus hears the disciples' confession of who he is--"You are [...]

Proverbs 22:1-2, 8-9, 22-23; Psalm 125; James 2:1-17; Mark 7:24-37 JESUS' HEALING MINISTRY continues with the Syrophoenician woman, a narrative found also in Matthew. his woman is the only person [...]

Isaiah 50:4-9; Psalm 31:9-16; Philippians 2:5-11; Mark 14:1-15:47 The silence and introspection of this sacred time come to an abrupt end with the "triumphant" entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, which [...]

We enter Holy Week stripped of all that stood between us and God just weeks ago. During Lent, Mark's gospel led us to cleanse our lives of idols that told [...]

Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16; Psalm 22:23-31; Romans 4:13-25; Mark 8:31-38 God's covenant with Abraham is actually God's third attempt to reach humanity--the first ended when we disobeyed God and were expelled [...]

Jeremiah 31:31-34; Psalm 51:1-12; Hebrews 5:5-10; John 12:20-33 On this Passion Sunday, the Jesus portrayed in John is calmly aware of the events that await him. The one who walks [...]

Genesis 9:8-17; Psalm 25:1-10; 1 Peter 3:18-22; Mark 1:9-15 Last Wednesday we began the Lenten journey marked with ashes and reminded that "we are dust, and to dust we shall [...]

Numbers 21:4-9; Psalm 107:1-3, 17-22; Ephesians 2:1-10; John 3:14-21 The account in Numbers is more important for what is not included than what is. The bronze serpent that Moses creates [...]

ENI--A Japanese theologian has made an unlikely connection between the Bible and the classical Japanese drama form called Noh. In Noh Drama And The Bible--Stories Of Women That Resonate With [...]

'He is like a well-watered plant in the sunshine, spreading its shoots over the garden.' Job 8:16 NIV As a child, I loved playing in the dirt. In fact, I [...]

The mission era is over, the partnership era is upon us. But what does partnership mean when one church no longer sends missionaries and the other no longer sends students [...]