“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...

This is my command: Love one another the way I loved you. This is the very best way to love. Put your life on the line for your friends. ...

Recently, a former United Methodist bishop challenged her listeners with a two-word-seed: “graceful hospitality.” United Methodists are...

“Look, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it?” (Isaiah 43:19). I read these ancient words, again, and...

He was in the world, the world was there through him, and yet the world didn’t even notice. He came to his own people, but they didn’t...

“Tell me a story.” How many times has a child, grandchild, niece, nephew, etc. pleaded with you to do this? North Carolina’s storyteller...

I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another...

A couple of weeks ago, Sabra and I were stricken with the COVID bug … no fun! However, I must admit that this downtime (euphemism alert)...

Several years ago I was astonished to learn that a pastor can be locked out of a church—not by accident (I’ve done this to myself a...

As we reflect on the month of July, we pause to remember the birth of a nation. It’s a month we associate with coming together; of...