My uncle was a bootlegger in my hometown in the late 1940s and 50s. He wore $300 suits, a ten-gallon Stetson hat, and Italian shoes. The roll of money in the...

This psalm is tough. David has had what can at best be called an adulterous dalliance with Bathsheba and has gotten her pregnant. He then tries to cover up his actions...

I playedcatcher in baseball and softball for thirty-five years. The most difficult thing about catching is holding on to the ball when you are run over by a runner trying to...

I  can remember times in my life when I have been wrong. In those times I had difficulty with guilt. What frustrated me was not the absence of forgiveness; I knew...

The day’s work had ended at a church conference on urban ministry, and a group of us were seated around a hotel room reviewing the day. Suddenly, one of the clergy...

Three teenaged buddies and I were on a camping trip when we discovered a watermelon patch on a farm on the other side of a barbed-wire fence. The watermelon patch was...

God provides Moses with instructions for guiding the people of Israel. The law and commandments invite the freed children of former slaves into life with God. God is building a new...

Peter affirms that his message came from his personal experience with Jesus Christ. His energy and enthusiasm almost leap from the printed page. What about your story? What have you come...

At first, Psalm 2 throws you headfirst into conflict, with nations competing for power, conspiring and plotting in vain, pushing and jockeying for position. It can all too easily be read...

Jesus invites his inner circle to come up the high mountain to experience an exalted state of consciousness, a higher state of spiritual reality. As Jesus is transfigured before their eyes,...