Text: Hebrews 11:1, 13-16 Some years ago, on a beautiful August day at the national conference center in Chautauqua, New York, I listened...

Hebrews 11:1-3, 29-33 I was nine years old and living in racially segregated Newport News. My blue-collar, Southern family did not have...

Texts: Isaiah 53:1-3; I Corinthians 13:12 In one of the most horrific encounters of the Second World War, the fate of the German Sixth...

Texts: Haggai 1:1-8; Galatians 5:1 This is the month for patriotic pundits to opine about freedom. Flags fly, fireworks explode, and this...

Text: Mark 5:21-43 “He took her by the hand and said to her, . . . ‘Little girl, get up!’ And immediately the little girl got up and...

Text: Genesis 21:1-21 I saw Hagar last week. She was foraging through a church dumpster. She was dodging ICE agents at the airport. She...

Text: I Kings 19 (selected verses) Chapter 18 of I Kings is all about the religious superstar Elijah. The prophet stands up to Jezebel,...

Text: Proverbs 8, selected verses The book of Proverbs is tucked away in the middle of the Old Testament. It is an odd book in many...

Text: Acts 2:1-21 The Session meeting had gone on for nearly five hours and it was rapidly approaching midnight. Yes, midnight! Many...

Psalm 68:1-10, 32-35 Before Pentecost arrives next Sunday and we say goodbye to the Easter season, we would be wise to celebrate a...