I am sure, if there was a grade for trying harder, I would get an A. Oh, but what about all the times I gave up in despair? Maybe I'm...

In the heart of the Gospel of Matthew, nestled between the infancy narrative and the passion account, lies the Sermon on the Mount....

Frustration overwhelms me as I reflect on so much wasted time during a week of being homebound by a week of snow and ice. I haven’t been...

It’s a new year! Welcome to 2024! Are you wondering what this year will hold? It always seems to make more sense to us to celebrate the...

We are entering the third week of Advent where the invitation is to joy! From the angel’s words to Zechariah about his coming son, “He...

Picture Jesus and his disciples: the triumphant entry into Jerusalem is behind them; they are gathered together around the table,...

Long, long ago in the creation of the heavens, God reached out a finger and touched one spinning planet, our earth. And God spoke, and...

Four hundred silent years, they say, followed the penning of the last word of what we now call the Old Testament. The Jewish world...

Black Friday and Cyber Monday mark the apex of American consumerism. As this Cyber Monday comes to a close, I am baffled by the reports...

Have you ever asked God for something and then regretted asking? As I was thinking about sharing some ideas for making Thanksgiving more...

I am sitting here today, watching the wind moving quietly through the trees— wondering if the trees feel it as a gentle touch, a gentle...

I am thinking back to our first Thanksgiving here in Portland. We had been here three months. Everything felt very strange. We were...

John 18:11 “Do you think for a moment I’m not going to drink this cup the Father has given me?” Peter here rose impulsively to your...

November for me means celebrating Thanksgiving; that often seems like America’s most overlooked holiday. Coming from New Zealand where...

[Disclosure: I have been reading very slowly through the Gospel of John for some time, pausing whenever a verse or phrase posed a...

In Christian theology, we hold to a doctrine of omnipresence, which in simple terms means that God is immediately present at all places...

Someone forgot to tell my blueberry bush that, actually, it is fall right now. And my neighbor’s Azalea bushes also failed to get the...

I wonder if you are enjoying expanding your horizon. As you seek to follow in Jesus’ footsteps and spend time with Father God in the...

An online study on the gospel of Matthew. Would I like to listen? Well, yes… Do you ever find yourself listening to a familiar Bible...

Can it really be nearly October? Do you ever find yourself feeling that the days rush by, the weeks vanish, the months…even the year...?...