Luke 9:18-36 To have saving faith in Jesus Christ is to have faith in two things–who Jesus is and what He has come to do. And in our...

Luke 8:1-21 If I were to give advice to seminarians or young pastors about the parable of the sower and the seed, I would humbly suggest...

Luke 7:1-17 Jesus Christ is Lord of heaven and earth. He has authority over every atom of the sea and the dry land. He owns the very air...

Luke 4:16–30 In politics, you’ll rarely hear a politician say “don’t vote for me for the wrong reasons.” Most of the time, they don’t...

2 Samuel 7:4-16 In Isaiah 11, when God promised that the Savior would come as a shoot from the stump of Jesse, He wasn’t kidding about...

Exodus 2:1-22 Moses’s life is one that is filled with water-based pivotal events. As we heard in our reading from Exodus 2 today, when...

Genesis 47 At the end of our reading from Genesis 47 today, Jacob has Joseph place his hand under his thigh, a euphemism for Jacob’s more...

Genesis 45 Everybody loves a great story, but even more than this, everybody loves a great true story. If you’re a fiction writer and you...

Genesis 43:1-28 Throughout his life, Jacob’s father Isaac most certainly told him the story of when his father Abraham led him up Mount...

Genesis 42 Very often in life, having your hands tied is the best situation you can find yourself in. Having no choice makes it easier to...

Genesis 24:1–31 and Mark 7:24–37 I love it when our two readings for the day fit quite well together, as they do today. In our first...

Genesis 21:1-21 Throughout the Scriptures, especially the Old Testament, God shows Himself to be the God who brings healing to broken...

Mark 6:14-34 One of the ways sinners love to justify their sin is by splitting it into sections and handing those sections to other...

Mark 4:21-41 As a child, I never understood the ending of The Wizard of Oz. Why is everyone cool with the Wizard at the film’s...

Genesis 7:11—8:12 It’s a beautiful word of comfort that the dove gives to Noah when she returns to the ark with a freshly plucked olive...

Genesis 1:20-2:3 “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” What exactly...

Genesis 1:1-19 Today is Ash Wednesday. And so I suppose that I should say to you, “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you will...

John 4:46-54 When Jesus performed his first miracle, it was in Cana, a miracle in which he turned water into wine at a wedding. And...

Job 8 In our reading from Job chapter 8 today, when Bildad the Shuhite speaks up, he offers us a great example of a phenomenon I suppose...

John 3:1-21 When Jesus asks Nicodemus, “are you the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things,” He’s not being snarky....