Read the rest of the series All of us have “one of those days” from time to time. Most are days of accumulated small annoyances, others are comprised of one direct hit after another. I was having one of those days. There are times when
And they went and woke him up, saying ‘Lord, save us! We are perishing!’ And he said to them,’ Why are you afraid, you of little faith?’ Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a dead calm. They
Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. (Isaiah 41:10) Courage is tenacity in the face
Read the rest of the series There are moments in life best experienced in the arms of silence. There are other occasions that demand to be expressed in words. And there are times when the demanded words simply do not reveal themselves. The silence group
As the coauthor of a book on homosexuality and the Bible, I’m often asked to speak to groups. Usually, I try to get them to let me talk about the affirming passages — the centurion and his slave, the Ethiopian eunuch, Hathach the messenger —
… the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. (2 Corinthians 3:6) A rabbi and a priest are having a conversation. The priest says to the rabbi, “You ought to have ham. You’ll like it.” The rabbi says to the priest, “You ought to have
Joshua 24:1-3a, 14-25 He had real grit, that Joshua. When his fellow spies felt like grasshoppers and the Canaanites looked like giants, Joshua and his friend Caleb urged the Hebrews to take them on even though their compatriots threatened to stone them for their advice.
As we stand before this portion of the far too vast AIDS Quilt, we acknowledge that we are standing on holy ground! We see this quilt as memorializing family, friends and loved ones who died much too soon; taken away from us far earlier than
Religion, for me, has more to do with living in the uncertainties, with loving questions, than with answering them. In the end, the hole in the soul is not filled by answers. It is healed only by deeper questions. (Alan Jones, Reimagining Christianity) “If you
First off, let’s deal with that famous passage in 2 Timothy 3.16: “All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness .” The phrase “inspired by God” is actually one word in the Greek, and it would