11th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A, RCL)

Sometimes ministry functions like a group project at school.

In an uncertain, murky time, God gives the people a gift: ten laws.

Why Howard Thurman dedicated his autobiography to a stranger

The prankster is God, through whom all things are possible.

There’s just one oak left at Mamre.

What would possess me to copy a chapter of the Bible by hand?

I fear we may reject the justification metaphor too quickly and understand it too shallowly.

Sarah wasn’t the first member of her household to laugh at God.

Jesus is saying, Love should feel like this.

Matthew’s Beatitudes are meant to give comfort, not to challenge.

Since my son’s accident, everything I understand about hope has changed.

Paul encourages his readers to trust an outcome they cannot yet see.

Hans Boersma sees scripture as more open to imaginative reading than our modern methods permit. The key is faith in Christ.

Wishes are about what we want. Hope is about what God wants.

If it's in the first verse of Romans 5, it must be important to Paul.