Romans 16:17-27 In our reading from Romans today, St. Paul calls us to mark and avoid those who cause divisions and create obstacles to...

Psalm 1 It’s a wonderful thing how the Psalms immediately begin with Jesus. There is no man who can say he does not walk in the counsel...

Joel 2:18-32 “And my people shall never again be put to shame.” So says God through the prophet Joel in our reading for this morning. And...

Romans 11:1-24 Anyone who has adopted children, in particular through the foster system, can tell you there’s a strange emotional bond...

Romans 10 Shame, in a Biblical sense, can mean a few different things. While guilt is more a legal term indicating your status before God...

Romans 7:21-8:17 There’s a common attack against Martin Luther that you’ll often hear in Roman Catholic circles that goes something like...

Romans 7:1-20 When Paul gives us this marriage analogy to understand our relationship with the Law, it’s a bit of a dangerous analogy....

Romans 5 I find it a bit funny that, right after telling us the free gift is not like the trespass, St. Paul immediately shows how the...

Romans 4 When St. Paul notes that Abraham was declared righteous before he was circumcised, his point is quite clear: Before there was a...

Romans 1:18-32 When Paul tells us that men had the knowledge of God but traded Him, in one sense, he’s speaking theologically. He’s...

Romans 1:1-17 When St. Paul says that he is not ashamed of the Gospel, he says this with regard to his apostolic calling. He has been...

Psalm 119:25-32 There’s a church in Portugal called “Capela dos Ossos,” “Chapel of the Bones” in English. This is a very literal name....

Isaiah 40:1-7 What does Isaiah mean when he says that Jerusalem has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins? Well, in the...

Psalm 119:81-88 As you all know, I love a good literary image, a quick little phrase that says in a few words what lesser writers could...

Revelation 5 Once the scroll was sealed shut. The book of salvation, the story of mankind finding peace with God, the story of God...

Isaiah 32 In describing the reign of the king of righteousness, Isaiah tells us that many things will change upon His arrival. Blindness...

Psalm 106:1-5 As Christians, we should rejoice that God has given us the right to speak to Him, and we should do it often. We should pray...

Isaiah 28:14-19 Our reading from Isaiah this morning gives us not a historical conversation between Jerusalem and those who have crushed...

Isaiah 26:20—27:13 “Come, my people, enter your chambers, and shut your doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until the...

1 John 3 In our reading from St. John this morning, the apostle warns us about the danger of living in sin as a Christian, the danger of...