What a gift it is to live together in community. What a challenge it is to live together in community. I find that both of these...

One of my favorite scripture verses is found in the Book of Psalms. I have to admit that it became one of my favorites after I first...

God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him won’t perish but will have eternal life (John...

The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore.  (Psalm 121:8 AMPC)   In her book,  Night...

“… Jesus came to Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God, and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near;...

It is interesting what we can discover about a person by listening carefully to their last spoken words. For example, John Wesley –...

3 The religion scholars and Pharisees led in a woman who had been caught in an act of adultery. They stood her in plain sight of everyone...

…we don’t evaluate people by what they have or how they look. We looked at the Messiah that way once and got it all wrong, as you know....

“… He steadfastly and determinedly set His face to go to Jerusalem.” Luke 9:51 AMPC During Holy Week, we remember how Luke framed the...

“My kingdom,” said Jesus, “doesn’t consist of what you see around you. If it did, my followers would fight so that I wouldn’t be handed...

In his book, “Joining God in The Great Unraveling,” Alan Roxburgh recounts the following remarkable/unremarkable story of the mysterious...

Someone once said God is every bit as much God in the silence as in the speaking. “Let all the earth keep silence before Him,” Habakkuk...

By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. John 13:35 Though many 21st-century Christians...

Back in the dim, misty recesses of time—2007 to be exact—I was a guest at a Walk to Emmaus Candlelight Service held at Wesleyan UMC...

And He said to him, “Get up and go on your way. Your faith (your trust and confidence that spring from your belief in God) has restored...

As someone who enjoys learning new verbiage, recently (and much to my joy) I discovered the fabulous word, coddiwomple, which is a verb...

52 They were all weeping and wailing for her; but he said, “Do not weep; for she is not dead but sleeping.” 53 And they laughed at him,...

Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?” ~John 14:5 NIV There are times in life when...

The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: ‘Come, go down to the potter’s house, and there I will let you hear my words.’ So I went...

“Listen carefully: Unless a grain of wheat is buried in the ground, dead to the world, it is never any more than a grain of wheat. But if...