Hebrews

Our behavior doesn’t change the claim Jesus makes on us.

Bumbling along in the footsteps of Melchizedek

Bumbling along in the footsteps of Melchizedek

What if Jesus is talking about humility rather than possessions?

A worshiper can go a long time without any idea of who Melchizedek is and what it means to be a priest according to his order.

A worshiper can go a long time without any idea of who Melchizedek is and what it means to be a priest according to his order.

Famously, Obama's term was originally premised on hope. Just as famously, his own faith has been mocked and doubted. I wonder how much of each he has left?

Hope is the content of faith. Hope is the adopted son, the grafted inheritor. If there are to be, as with Abraham’s descendants, innumerable stars and grains of sands, it will be through this boy.

"Belief is not the 'substance of things hoped for.' Faith is."

On Good Friday we face conflicting urges, on multiple fronts.

On the one hand, I don't want to be one of the Christians who Gardner Taylor called "a Resurrection people, but not a Crucifixion people." I don't want to rescue Jesus from the cross--the weekly tendency of many preachers, and I think a poor interpretation of "bringing the good news." It is a reality: Jesus died.

Are the people of 21st-century Israel the chosen ones of Genesis to whom Yahweh promised the land in eternal covenant? Walter Brueggemann gives a nuanced answer.

The wrenching dislocations of World War II were often pitilessly ignored by the world. What story will be told of our time, and of us?

In recent years, some very good cautions have emerged concerning talk of “heavenly cities” and dissatisfaction with our “earthly” home. Preaching in such a way that emphasizes a city to come brings with it a host of dangers.

When my senior colleague proposed a ten-week sermon series on the saints, I was hesitant. Would anyone find this interesting?

When my senior colleague proposed a ten-week sermon series on the saints, I was hesitant. Would anyone find this interesting?