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A few weeks ago, the route was different. The disciples brought Jesus a borrowed donkey and he descended from the Mount of Olives into...

What images flood into your head when you hear the word “conquer”? (Take a moment to consider.) Maybe Alexander the Great, who conquered...

“Beloved,” the writer of 1 John says to his community, “let us love one another, because love is from God …” He is saying this, I remind...

Our passage today from 1 John begins, “We know love by this …” What does love look like? Could you draw a picture of it? Or pick it out...

Maybe you saw the story. It came across my newsfeed about ten days ago. The headline was guaranteed to capture attention: “We found a...

It is easy to imagine that a community of believers quickly gathered in the wake of the resurrection; that they shared in amazement and...

Three things: Mark is the first to record the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. Other gospels will follow. Mark’s account is brief,...

Mark is always brief – as if he is trying to tell us his version of the gospel 140 characters at a time – so when he spends almost 2/3 of...

​His head was spinning. It was like Jesus was speaking a foreign language. He had come to ask the teacher from Galilee some questions. He...

John begins his gospel as if he is describing creation – “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God...

I told you Mark is a confrontational gospel! Here is more proof: We are half-way through the gospel and people are still unsure about who...

Fred Craddock observes, “It is difficult to listen to a text when there are other texts in the room talking about the same subject...

Do you remember climbing a tree as a child? Up, up, hand over hand. Stretching, straining, your heart beating fast. Until you can peer...

​It began with a fever. She tried to ignore it. She had too much work to do; to many people counting on her! But ignoring it didn’t make...

Imagine this scene: Jesus walks into the synagogue at Capernaum and begins to teach. What would that have looked like? Mark 1:21-28...

Do you remember that we started the Advent season six weeks ago with words from Isaiah 64? The prophet put into words Israel’s longing...

Do you remember that we started the Advent season six weeks ago with words from Isaiah 64? The prophet put into words Israel’s longing...

By now you have heard the story of our adventure following a star. People always ask what drew us to travel all that way; and about...