At age six, I declared to my family, “I am accepting my call to preach!” What an announcement for a child barely out of first grade. I was responding to a...

In 1973, Revlon launched the perfume Charlie with a now-famous television commercial that sold the promise of youth and freedom. “Kinda young, kinda now, Charlie! Kinda free, kinda wow, Charlie!” said...

Participating in the after-Thanksgiving sale is often a clear example of the old ways versus new ways of living cited in scripture. Somewhere on a cold Friday morning, there will be...

Have you ever heard the phrase, “If you are going to pray don’t worry, and if you are going to worry don’t pray”? This phrase implies that prayer assuages worries, and...

Mental health is so important that we have devoted an entire month to its awareness. Although efforts are moving forward to highlight the importance of these needs, I still wonder how...

Even the most beautiful of relationships are complicated. Any parent figure knows this truth in their relationship with those they care for. It is the connection itself that can cause such...

Two Tuesday nights each month, a suburban church hosted a dinner followed by a program for adults and an activity for kids. The brainchild of an associate pastor and a Christian...

In this second half of the book of Ephesians, the subject shifts from theological instruction to moral teaching. Now that we believe in Jesus Christ and have committed ourselves to following...

From a distance of almost 2000 years, we may wonder why the people who saw Jesus up close seem so confused about his identity. We believe, don’t we? And all we...

This week’s Gospel lesson starts in the middle of an action-packed story. A huge crowd of people are following Jesus, who had fed them all with a little boy’s five loaves...