John 1:32-34 "The Link with Our Savior"
John the Baptist testified of Christ's baptism, that he heard the Voice of the Father and saw the Spirit descend as a dove on the man Jesus. In our baptism we are linked to Jesus, the water removing ...
8 Apr 202328min
Psalm 24 "Integrity"
Few values in our century are as neglected as personal integrity, the kind that treats others by the same standard that we apply to ourselves. We are tempted to change identities, shuck off old promis...
5 Apr 202329min
Ecclesiastes 5 "Never Enough"
This meditation on Solomon's insight into the futility of even the most successful life explains how we were created for more than temporal life. In Christ our full potential for life overflowing is r...
31 Mar 202329min
Mark 9: "Cut off My Hand?"
Author Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), a notorius doubter, remarked, "It is not the things in the Bible I don't understand that trouble me; it is the things in the Bible I DO understand that trouble me."...
8 Mar 202329min
Jonah 3 "Turn before You Crash!"
Jonah's was a message of repentance, of "turning," changing your mind, and changing direction before disaster follows. The pagan citizens of Niniveh were given this opportunity to repent, and so are ...
1 Mar 202327min
Matthew 16: "Profit Motive?"
Christ appeals to our sense of gain or advantage when He asks, "What profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" The paradox of gaining by renouncing, and its converse, the irrati...
22 Feb 202329min
Matthew 14: "Walk on Water?"
This meditation addresses the puzzling circumstances of the disciples' leaving Christ behind to dismiss those He had fed with fish and loaves. And why were they so frightened of seeing a ghost? The co...
15 Feb 202329min
1 Timothy 2: "A Peaceful, Godly Life"
What does the Christian life look like? St. Paul's words to Timothy show that God grows His Church, not by revolution, nor by retreat and seclusion, but by assimilation as when Christians live their f...
8 Feb 202328min
