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So I wonder, on the day when Jesus was baptized, and the heavens were torn apart, was there a rainbow – a reminder that God had committed...

If you are looking in the wrong place you will miss the light, the glow that reveals God. Mark 9:2-9 and 2 Corinthians 4:3-6 February 11,...

I don’t know for sure what Peter’s mother-in-law was thinking as she lay there, but illness and injury have a way of throwing us for a...

Whatever he taught, the people were astounded – for instead of just quoting other teachers, as was typical, he taught as one who knew God...

So what is your reason for following Jesus? Is it some sense of duty or the full flush of love? Is it hope conjured out of the crucible...

Matthew and Luke tell birth stories so we will know that this baby is the Messiah. Mark makes his case at the baptism with the heavens...

Perhaps you have heard the classic short story by Henry Van Dyke, The Story of the Other Wise Man. It tells of Artaban, who also saw the...

She realized this was a parable for the incarnation. She writes, “So, if you have ears to hear, listen: when your grilled cheese is eaten...

Gabriel greets her as “favored one!” and asserts that the Lord is with her. It is the kind of statement that stops time. Luke says she...

Jesus says, “after that suffering,” when it seems like the very heavens are shaking, the Son of Man will come with great power and glory...

Matthew says in the previous chapter that his disciples came to him “privately” with questions about the end of the age: what will...

So when Paul thanks God, it is not just for what God is doing, but for the way the people there are responding! That’s a good reminder...

Jesus has entrusted his disciples with the good news. They must dare to act; they must share what they have been given; they must...

Gathering on the Mount of Olives is important. The prophet Zechariah looks forward to a day when the LORD will stand on the Mount of...

Instead, the first thing Jesus does is compliment the Pharisees and religious scholars as “competent teachers of God’s Law. You won’t go...

I think this is the perfect text for Reformation Sunday – not because it points to grace, or the majesty of God, or the authority of...

But, as the group of members who looked at the passage discovered, there is more to this than a trick! And probably more than you might...

The king is like God; the people who reject the invitation are like the Jews; the servants killed are the prophets; the city burned is...

Paul doesn’t actually have to choose between being an Israelite and following Christ. He can be both … and many in Philippi are both. But...

I think Paul is inviting the Philippians to join him in singing. (Us too!) Not just because the hymn tells of what God has done for us....