The Spirit of truth, the Advocate that Jesus promises to send, is a presence we can trust. The Holy Spirit functions as a bridge of communication between God and humankind, and...

I am an only child. My parents constantly joked that “if we had more kids, we would have gotten the child we actually deserved,” because I was, in their words, an...

Wisdom calls out to us, her people. From her vantage point at the town gate, she sees the frustrations and difficulties of her community, and she empathizes with them. I experience...

In times of great turmoil, I feel the presence of God. Not everyone does, and I think this is because we as human beings are often distracted by our own pain....

When I am really excited about something, I can’t sit still. I become so invested in what I am passionate about that I cannot stop talking about it. When I began...

The psalmist compliments “the work of [God’s] fingers” in verse 3, and I envision the first quilt I made. While not as majestic as the heavens or the stars and moon,...

We continue to look at the ministry of the Holy Spirit. These verses convey Jesus’ final message to his disciples as recorded in the Gospel of John. He speaks of the...

The disciples of Jesus are distressed and confused in the upper room as they listen to Jesus trying to prepare them for his coming death and departure. “Do not let your...

Have you ever struggled with a deep sense of inferiority? Have you felt like your life was amounting to nothing? As a child I often found myself struggling with this feeling....

Paul’s message in the eighth chapter of his letter to the Romans necessarily calls to mind the Exodus story of the Israelites leaving Egypt. God led the Israelites out of Egypt,...