Growing up in the religious world of my friends and family, from my earliest years I remember hearing talk and sermons about Jesus coming again. In fact, I would say…
The Gospel of Luke 6:17-23
At that time, Jesus stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and…
There's something about intimacy that scares us to death AND becomes a central hunger for our lives.
From sociological studies showing modern society becoming more and more lonely, to small groups…
St. Timothy was a young, spiritual son of St. Paul, and Paul had placed Timothy as the head of a local Christian community. Now Paul is writing to his spiritual…
"And behold, you will be silent and unable to speak until the day that these things come to pass, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled…
At a recent spiritual retreat I was asked to conduct, I was asked how one should prepare to deal with questions about the faith when others ask about it.
It's a…
In the early 80's Merle Haggard came out with a great country song about "Rainbow Stew." The song celebrated a time when everything in the world would be right and…
What a provocative Gospel Lesson today! Listen to the last part: "And when the devil had ended every temptation, he departed from him until an opportune time. And Jesus returned…
"Oh NO! Not the family tree scriptures again!" I can almost hear the congregation thinking out loud when we come to portions of the scriptures that have "and so and…
A certain man married, had children, and became a very wealthy businessman. His fortune was world renowned. As his children grew, they got the best of everything - the best…