As a former English teacher, I occasionally diagram Paul’s sentences just to see how he does it. Nobody but Paul subordinates clauses within clauses like that and consistently hooks readers for...

Holy humility is what the Pharisees lack as they try to trip up Jesus with their questions about the sabbath. When they harangue him about harvesting and healing on the day...

Every night, millions of us can’t sleep. Stressed, unsettled, excited, wired, texted, and blue-screened beyond our limits, we might lie awake for hours. If this isn’t you, be grateful. But the...

Perhaps this passage is not only about Jesus’ ongoing tension with the Pharisees and their recrimination for disregarding proper sabbath protocol, but also an invitation to consider ways that our clay-jar...

I always read this story with compassion for the man with the withered hand. Not only because he has been incapacitated for some time, but because he was just minding his...

How easy it is to focus on the “fearful” aspects of our incarnation. True, the word originally meant “awesome” but to contemporary ears, the word fearful casts an anxious light. Accidents...

These verses are some of the most beloved in the Bible. Many of us know them by heart. Yet we can always find more to unpack. Scholars suggest that when the...

John tells us that Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews, secretly sought out Jesus at night so that he would not be seen. However, subsequently in John’s Gospel, we glimpse “the...

As long as I can remember, a large oil painting hung over the sofa in my parents’ living room. For some reason, I loved that picture. So when my father died,...

They will know we are Christians by our love.” Christians should be known by how we put our love into action. God loves us so that we can love ourselves, others,...