This is a prayer of lament, a prayer of complaint. The psalmist cries out from the depths of pain and sorrow. We do not know if this is a personal struggle...

Wind is powerful. It can bend trees and topple buildings. It can refresh us on a hot day and make us shiver in the snow. We can have the wind knocked...

Words have power. We say words cannot hurt us like sticks or stones, but the truth is words can wound us in ways that are hard to heal. If we have...

This story appears to be about a man born blind and the Pharisees who can see just fine. However, we discover that the man who physically cannot see has more insight...

Here we have Jesus, the Light of the world, healing a man born blind. The Pharisees want to know who sinned—this man or his parents—to cause this punishment of blindness. It’s...

“Wake up, sleepyhead! Rise and shine!” My mom awakened me this way for years. If I had something fun to do that day, I was excited to wake up. If not,...

When I was little, I was afraid of the dark. I imagined my bedroom was full of monsters just beyond the range of my vision. To make matters worse, there was...

One part of this psalm that has always made me pause is the part about preparing “a table before me in the presence of my enemies.” I picture the shepherd as...

This psalm is so familiar in our churches and in our culture that it is hard to read it without bringing considerable baggage. It is the sort of biblical excerpt that...

Samuel is sure he knows what God is looking for in Israel’s next king. Now that God has sent him to Jesse’s house, Samuel’s confidence grows: Don’t worry, God, it will...