When we place ourselves humbly at God’s feet and seek to learn, we find that we receive wisdom. The psalmist has experienced delight while observing “the faithful and just works of...

The psalmist calls us to join our voices celebrating God’s divine attributes. The “works of God’s hands,” the psalmist proclaims, should be “studied.” At four intervals in the hymn of praise,...

Moses himself was an example of one who was selected to reveal the extraordinary. And in today’s reading, we hear through Moses that God declares, “I will raise up for them...

The division that emerged over how to respond to the pandemic has only highlighted the deep divides that were already present beneath the surface. There are times when I wonder if...

Though Mark’s writing is concise, this scene from the Galilean seaside is evocative. Jesus is walking along the water’s edge watching the fisherman in their boats a little way off shore,...

If there is a perfect season to wait for God in silence, it must be winter. During this time of year all of creation seems to slow down and cozy up....

When Jonah first hears God’s voice calling him to go to Nineveh, he does not drop what he’s doing and follow God’s lead like the disciples in Mark’s Gospel. He does...

The immediacy of Mark has always been startling to me. With no birth story to ease us into the life of Jesus, we are thrown right in with a wild character...

Yesterday we read Paul’s words to the Corinthians urging them to put our time here on earth into perspective in the light of Christ. Today we turn to the Psalms for...

I was in the passenger’s seat of my friend’s red, late 90s Pontiac Grand Prix when he ran a red light and pulled directly into oncoming traffic, resulting in another vehicle...