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As I said, I am a carpenter, skilled with my hands, hardworking and honest. I build doors for houses; I craft tables and tools, yokes and...

“Every year when Advent rolls around, we hear John’s voice shouting out in the wilderness. He draws a crowd, demands people repent, and...

“Before settling in to talk about John the Baptist, or Mary’s song, or an angel delivering messages, the church skips ahead to talk about...

“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, [the] courage to change the things I can, and [the] wisdom to know the...

But as with so many things, while God could do this alone, God seems to prefer to share the work by involving us in creating (or...

Luke paints a picture of a great multitude – city-slickers from Jerusalem and country bumpkins from the Judean countryside and even...

In the parable, the Pharisee is confident, comfortable, … and when he notices the other guy praying, condescending. And the tax collector...

Luke looks out at his congregation and fears that they are asking the same question themselves. Why keep at it after all these years? Why...

When Paul wrote about Timothy’s faith having lived first in his grandmother Lois and his mother Eunice, he was celebrating, much as we...

The mood of World Communion Sunday is often buoyant, celebratory, triumphant! Isn’t it amazing, we gush, that Christians are sharing...

In today’s passage Paul advises Timothy to pray particular prayers for specific people in order that those under his care might live a...

Parables, of course, are sneaky. They tell a story where you can see yourself and dare you to draw your own conclusions. Luke 14:1, 7-14...

This is not the prayer of someone gushing that they are #blessed! Job 42:1-6 August 21, 2022 Dr. Todd R. Wright We come to the end of...

Daniel was one of the best and the brightest of his generation. That’s why he was part of the group hauled off to exile in Babylon. He...

When Jeremiah received his prophetic call from the Lord, he was commissioned … “to pluck up and pull down … to build and to plant.”....

You have probably been in circumstances where a prayer was expected and the most religious person in the room stepped up and said...

Of course, God is not a genie with three wishes to grant and Solomon is not Aladdin. Instead, Solomon’s throne still has training wheels,...

His tale is epic: chosen from shepherding his father’s flocks; brave enough to fight the Philistine giant Goliath; a gifted musician and...

Hannah is an unexpected hero. We are told at the beginning of 1 Samuel that she is married to Elkanah and they are from Ephraim, a...

Fresh off promising a son to Abraham and Sarah, God turns to the next matter on the day’s to-do list – a great outcry against the sin of...