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​We Christians have had 2000 years to get used to the idea of baptism, but what do you suppose it meant to those who flocked out into the...

“Pilgrimage” is defined as a journey, especially a long one, made to some sacred place. After my experience this past summer – hiking 400...

Those days were just like any other: with people working to put food on the table before falling into an exhausted, restless sleep; with...

“Each night, we secretly huddled around the wireless,” she remembered, “eagerly hoping to receive some coded message that meant,...

And just like that, the angel left Mary … and she was alone: alone with the consequences of saying yes to God; alone with her thoughts,...

For many, COVID has been one grand interruption! We were working and worshiping. studying and serving, building and buying … and then...

Jeremiah 33:14-16 November 28, 2021 Dr. Todd R. Wright “The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will fulfill the promise I...

“Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds!” says our scripture or as Eugene Peterson puts it in the Message,...

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

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...