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Palm or Passion Sunday is the day we hear of our Lord’s passion for us and remember the last week of his human life, the culmination of...

Take up your cross, not just for Lent but for life. Jesus seems to be saying: If you want any part of me have it all – the teaching and...

Forty days, or forty years, in a short hand way of the Bible telling us that something very significant is happening that brings about a...

The transfiguration is a movable feast in the church calendar. It can be celebrated the last Sunday before Lent, or the second Sunday of...

The nearness of the kingdom of God is made known by teaching with authority, healing on the Sabbath, eating with friends and family, and...

The themes of knowledge, power, authority, wisdom and love, do seem to run through our RCL readings this week (Deuteronomy 18:15-20,...

Most of us, like Jonah, would prefer to be sent to Tarshish than to Nineveh. The story of the call of Jonah is in many ways the grumpy...

Things that were once separate – creation and the creator, human and divine, flesh and spirit – are being declared Beloved and...

Isaiah announces the comfort of God. Many of us are aching for comfort, rest, reassurance and encouragement at this time.

We begin Advent with the longing for the coming of God and the openness to change within and without.