On Christmas Eve, our people believe that they already know and understand the significance of this day. In a way, they do. And yet we will want to let the…
Matthew 1:18-25 presents the nativity, not as a return to some beloved, reassuring, comfortable time and place that’s a treasured childhood memory. Rather, here we have the birth of Jesus…
As we enter Advent, we come across these strange scriptures…they are apocalyptic scriptures, which merely mean they are telling us about or warning us about what will happen in the…
The main thing Paul wants us to receive in this passage is a sweeping, cosmic vision of the identity of Christ as Lord of all. Paul is addressing himself to…
Here we are listening in on an argument. Jesus is responding to hostile critics. This is the only time in Luke’s Gospel that Jesus has a debate with Sadducees. Perhaps…
In a little story that is this Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus tells about two people who have come to the temple. Each of them is focused (obsessed?) with sin. One of…
We wonder if this parable might have been intended to provide encouragement to discouraged believers in the early church. Perhaps they were praying for deliverance from some persecution. Or perhaps…
There is a great gap between the rich and the poor. Jesus deftly portrays that gap in this parable, contrasting and accentuating the way the world is for the rich…