Proverbs 8:22-36 In the beginning was the Word. Always and forever, He has been there. From the beginning of the Father’s work, the Son...

John 12:1-19 In a way, it’s strange that we ever sin because sin is much harder work than righteousness, in particular when sin requires...

John 11:38-57 It’s rather comical, the way the Pharisees and Chief Priests respond to Jesus raising Lazarus from the dread. “If we let...

John 11:17-37 With Jesus Christ, there is no waiting, even as we wait. This is a beautiful promise we see in our reading from John 11...

Ecclesiastes 12 You’d be hard pressed to find a life with more adventure and pleasure than that of Solomon–unfathomable wealth,...

John 10:22-42 Jesus has a fantastic way of cutting to the chase when He argues with His enemies, a lovely way of making them admit what...

TUESDAY Ecclesiastes 5 Hell is loving things that don’t love you back. Hell is, in a sense, worshiping your works, trusting in them to...

TUESDAY Numbers 22:21-23:3 The wild thing about our reading from Numbers today is that Balaam doesn’t freak out when his donkey starts...

Numbers 22:1-20 Martin Luther once said, “even the devil is God’s devil.” That is to say, while the devil wars against God, God always...

Luke 20:19-44 At the end of Christ’s earthly ministry, His enemies are so frothing mad that they’ve become complete idiots, for lack of a...

Luke 19:29-48 “Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace.” So says Jesus about His beloved but...

Luke 19:11-28 “Who told you that you were naked?” So God asks Adam and Eve after He finds them hiding in the trees of the garden. And the...

Luke 18:35-19:10 After Jesus opens the eyes of this blind beggar, Luke tells us that the man followed Jesus glorifying God. And while we...

Numbers 11:24-29; 12:1-16 As a general rule, when you find people trying to bind consciences where God has not bound them, you’ll find...

Psalm 130 When my son John was a baby, he had a very difficult time sleeping through the night, mostly because my wife and I didn’t make...

Luke 16:19-31 The great irony of Lazarus and the Rich Man is that it’s the poor beggar who has a name while the rich man doesn’t....

Luke 16:1-18 The parable of the dishonest manager is probably the most difficult of Christ’s parables to understand, at least in terms of...

Luke 15:11-32 In many ways, the prodigal son and his brother are quite different. But in one rather important way they’re the same: they...

Luke 12:13-34 When the man from the crowd commands Jesus “tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me,” there’s more than a touch...

Leviticus 21 God loves the lowly of this world. He loves the blind and the lame, the deformed and the mutilated and the blemished. But,...