November 27, First Sunday of Advent: Isaiah 2:1-5; Matthew 24:36-44
While we're preparing for Jesus' birth, these texts talk about getting ready for the Second Coming.
While we're preparing for Jesus' birth, these texts talk about getting ready for the Second Coming.
Luke's text for Reign of Christ Sunday is a searing critique of leaders who are powerful but not vulnerable.
I'd left the practice of testimony in my childhood church. Then I learned why Luke suggests it when your world is falling apart.
A retired colonel taught me about the courage it takes to love our enemies.
Zacchaeus's daily life as a tax collector was reduced to the symptoms of his society's sickness.
Nations as well as individuals need to look in the moral mirror in order to stop deceiving ourselves.