Sunday’s Coming

In Genesis, Sarai is a profoundly underwritten character.

The creation story gives us a glimpse of the nature of God whom we name as the Holy Trinity.

John’s account is quieter than Luke’s.

The cares of this world seem only to multiply.

It is tempting to look to the heavens rather than face the reality of the world.

How can we know which suffering is generative and which is pointless?

Jelly Roll’s Grammy speech was a heartfelt testimony to the power of a relationship with Jesus.

When Jesus’ hearers don’t understand him, is it because they are spiritual doofuses? Or is non-understanding part of Jesus’ intent?

Compassion and its rationale are so simple.

What more could one need than an encounter with the risen Christ?

Here are some gems from the Jeremiah reading for Sunday.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder shows us what Good Friday preaching ought to do.

It’s hard to take it strictly on its own terms.

What is a preacher to do with Palm/Passion Sunday?

When the bottom drops out of our world, I think most of us find ourselves preferring the old status quo.

We can’t reconcile the senseless mercy of Jesus with an insistence that life is fair.

A spring of living water is not easily controlled.

If Nicodemus wants to be a “teacher of Israel,” he needs to let go of his need to have all the answers—and he must be willing to learn.

We each have to face mortality alone—but also together.

While there is much in the Fall story that might be healing, its primary legacy has been . . . well, “hurtful” seems far too weak a word.