Romans 3:1-18 When it comes to the various theological assertions people make, I have a theory that I like to call the Common Knowledge...

Romans 2:17-29 There’s a great scene from an episode of “Seinfeld” where Jerry goes to get a rental car but is told they don’t have the...

Romans 2:1-16 Back in the 80s and 90s, it was a somewhat regular occurrence for a famous televangelist to get caught engaging in...

Matthew 2:1-12 Who were these mysterious wise men who followed Christ’s star from a distant land all the way to a small house in the...

Luke 3:1-20 John the Baptist had been sent by God to prepare the way for the coming of the Messiah—making him the pinnacle of the Old...

Luke 2:41-52 Luke is the only gospel which gives us any information about Jesus’ life between his birth and the beginning of his public...

Luke 2:22-40 Luke tells us that Simeon was waiting for the consolation of Israel. That’s a rather loaded phrase that Luke is using. ...

John 20:24-29 One of the reasons our world is such a mess today is because we have a bad habit of letting our afflictions tell us how to...

Isaiah 40:18-41:10 A number of years ago, I bought my dad a book called “War Letters.” It was a collection of letters that American...

Revelation 7 For many of us, sorrow haunts the Christmas season. Or, to be a bit more liturgically accurate, it haunts the waning days of...

Revelation 4 Here, in the fourth chapter of Revelation John is writing furiously trying to describe to us the wonder of this breathtaking...

Revelation 3 When Jesus tells the church in Laodicea: “I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold...

Revelation 2 Yesterday, we noted that the book of Revelation takes its name from the word apocalypse—which means to take the things that...

Revelation 1 Maybe I’m getting a little old fashioned, but I really miss the days where we had to watch movies on DVDs. It’s not so much...

Jude 1-25 Near the beginning of the epic novel Lonesome Dove, we’re introduced to a character named July Johnson—a quiet man who wants...

1 John 3 When zookeepers take in an orphaned bear cub, before they introduce the lost little guy to his adoptive mother, they slather...

1 John 2:15-29 Why isn’t the world better? Why aren’t things more peaceful and anxiety-free? Why are people so ugly and cruel? Why isn’t...

Isaiah 24:1-13 In the chapters of Isaiah leading up to our reading for this morning, God is speaking words of judgment against Egypt and...

2 Peter 3 When you look out at a world of perversion and cruelty and God isn’t raining sulfur down from heaven, it’s easy to despair....

Isaiah 11 When I was growing up, there was a certain young girl my age at church who always asked the same question in Sunday school,...